Hackers Respond To Help Wanted Ads With Malware

itwbennett writes "The FBI issued a warning Wednesday about a new twist on a long-running computer fraud technique, known as Automated Clearing House fraud. With ACH fraud, criminals install malware on a small business' computer and use it to log into the company's online bank account. In this latest twist on the scam, the criminals are apparently looking for companies that are hiring online and then sending malicious software programs that are doctored to look like job applications. One unnamed company recently lost $150,000 in this way, according to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center. 'The malware was embedded in an e-mail response to a job posting the business placed on an employment website,' the FBI said in a press release. The malware, a variant of the Bredolab Trojan, 'allowed the attacker to obtain the online banking credentials of the person who was authorized to conduct financial transactions within the company.'"

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My old boss moved back home and worked out a spiffy job doing govt contracts and he had 4 others working for him at the time, and I was considering being the 5th, so I went down to interview and work there for a week training his new people, and he told me proudly that he was the resident IT professional as well, and I warned him that he should be hiring someone to do that full time, he seemed offended.

The next day, I introduced him to BackTrack and we decided to take some time and try to hack his network. Needless to say we were in his WEP secured network within 5 minutes, and within 15 minutes more we were happily browsing files on the Drobo connected to his laptop in his office!

I then went back to my hotel around the corner, and was easily able to see his network traffic from the hotel network, and grab his emails and other communications with wireshark!

I didnt take the job, so the IT guy was employee #5, and he spent weeks removing all the crap he found!

Cheers!