In what year was the employment website created which was later attacked by the Zeus Trojan Horse malware?
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Zeus (malware) Zeus, ZeuS, or Zbot is a Trojan horse malware package that runs on versions of Microsoft Windows. While it can be used to carry out many malicious and criminal tasks, it is often used to steal banking information by man-in-the-browser keystroke logging and form grabbing. It is also used to install the CryptoLocker ransomware. Zeus is spread mainly through drive-by downloads and phishing schemes. First identified in July 2007 when it was used to steal information from the United States Department of Transportation, it became more widespread in March 2009. In June 2009 security company Prevx discovered that Zeus had compromised over 74,000 FTP accounts on websites of such companies as the Bank of America, NASA, Monster.com, ABC, Oracle, Play.com, Cisco, Amazon, and "BusinessWeek". Similarly to Koobface, Zeus has also been used to trick victims of tech support scams into giving the scam artists money through pop-up messages that claim the user has a virus, when in reality they might have no viruses at all. The scammers may use programs such as Command prompt or Event viewer to make the user believe that their computer is infected.
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Monster.com Monster.com is an American-based global employment website owned and operated by Monster Worldwide, Inc. It was created in 1999 through the merger of The Monster Board (TMB) and Online Career Center (OCC). Monster is primarily used to help those seeking work to find job openings, for lower to mid-level employment, that match their skills and location.
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Browse Happy Browse Happy is a website created by the Web Standards Project in August 2004 to convince internet users to use a web browser other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It focuses on security issues in Internet Explorer and suggests four alternatives: Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome. The core of the site is a collection of stories of people who have switched from Internet Explorer to alternative web browsers.
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The Muse (website) The Muse (formerly known as The Daily Muse) is a New York City-based online career source founded in 2011 by Kathryn Minshew, Alexandra Cavoulacos, and Melissa McCreery. The company aims to build the "most beloved, trusted career destination in the world" for the millennial age group and older professionals by offering job listings, company profiles, expert advice, skills-building resources, and coaching services to the millions of candidates using the platform.
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W32.Myzor.FK@yf W32.Myzor.yf is a fictional computer virus hyped by advertising software related to the Zlob trojan. When a computer is controlled by the advertising software, the browser will be redirected to secureiepage.com, displaying a pop-up ad about the supposed virus. The pop-up ad lists many harmful effects, despite only redirecting the browser and adding two flashing icons to the system tray. By listing harmful effects, it attempts to convince the user to purchase software by stating "YOUR COMPUTER WAS INFECTED WITH MALWARE!".
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BuysUSA.com BuysUSA.com was a United States-based internet site created to illegally distribute software from companies such as Adobe Systems, Autodesk, and Macromedia.
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The Employment Guide The Employment Guide is a large publisher of skilled and hourly employment advertising nationwide , with almost 80 weekly recruitment publications in over 75 major markets. Together with its online Web site, "The Employment Guide" targets hourly, entry-level to mid-management employees.
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Adware Adware, or advertising-supported software, is any software package that automatically renders advertisements in order to generate revenue for its author. The advertisements may be in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the user during the installation process. The functions may be designed to analyze which Internet sites the user visits and to present advertising pertinent to the types of goods or services featured there. The term is sometimes used to refer to software that displays unwanted advertisements known as malware.
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SecurityFocus SecurityFocus is an online computer security news portal and purveyor of information security services. Home to the well-known Bugtraq mailing list, SecurityFocus columnists and writers included former Department of Justice cybercrime prosecutor Mark Rasch, and hacker-turned-journalist Kevin Poulsen.
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Cydoor Cydoor Desktop Media is an Israeli adware company. Cydoor originally placed ads only in software programs such as Kazaa and iMesh, but has now expanded into running ads on websites as an advertising network.
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MalwareTech Marcus Hutchins, also known online as MalwareTech, is a British computer security researcher known for temporarily stopping the WannaCry ransomware attack. He is employed by cybersecurity firm Kryptos Logic.
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ZmEu (vulnerability scanner) ZmEu is a computer vulnerability scanner which searches for web servers that are open to attack through the phpMyAdmin program,
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In-session phishing In-session phishing is a form of phishing attack which relies on one web browsing session being able to detect the presence of another session (such as a visit to an online banking website) on the same web browser, and to then launch a pop-up window that pretends to have been opened from the targeted session. This pop-up window, which the user now believes to be part of the targeted session, is then used to steal user data in the same way as with other phishing attacks.
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Gumblar Gumblar is a malicious JavaScript trojan horse file that redirects a user's Google searches, and then installs rogue security software. Also known as Troj/JSRedir-R this botnet first appeared in 2009.
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Office of Personnel Management data breach In June 2015, the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that it had been the target of a data breach targeting the records of as many as four million people. Later, FBI Director James Comey put the number at 18 million. The data breach, which had started in March 2014 or earlier, was noticed by the OPM in April 2015. It has been described by federal officials as among the largest breaches of government data in the history of the United States. Information targeted in the breach included personally identifiable information such as Social Security numbers, as well as names, dates and places of birth, and addresses. The hack went deeper than initially believed and likely involved theft of detailed security-clearance-related background information.
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Employment fraud Employment fraud is an attempt to defraud people who are seeking or performing employment by giving them a false hope of better employment, often with higher wages. Employment fraud involves activities such as fraudulent representation of income to a borrower who claims self-employment in a non-existent company. It also includes a small number of hours paired with a lot of free time.
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LitwareHR LitwareHR is a fictitious HR application released in February 2007 as part of Microsoft's SaaS architecture guidance. Aimed at software architects and developers, the goal of LitwareHR is twofold:
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Cyber spying Cyber spying, or cyber espionage, is the act or practice of obtaining secrets and information without the permission and knowledge of the holder of the information from individuals, competitors, rivals, groups, governments and enemies for personal, economic, political or military advantage using methods on the Internet, networks or individual computers through the use of proxy servers, cracking techniques and malicious software including Trojan horses and spyware. It may wholly be perpetrated online from computer desks of professionals on bases in far away countries or may involve infiltration at home by computer trained conventional spies and moles or in other cases may be the criminal handiwork of amateur malicious hackers and software programmers.
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Linux Spike Trojan malware Linux Spike Trojan malware, more widely known as MrBlack, is a type of malware that infects routers, and eventually spreads to other routers. Incapsula, an internet security firm, first saw this malware in December 2014. This tool is prone to attack devices that still use the default credentials. A "bot" is a type of malware that allows an attacker to take control over an affected computer. Also known as “Web robots,” bots are usually part of a network of infected machines, known as a “botnet,” which is typically made up of victim machines that stretch across the globe.
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Myjobmatcher MyJobMatcher.com is a worldwide employment-related matching system that matches jobs to candidates using their uploaded resumes. MyJobMatcher was founded in 2011 by Arran Stewart and Paul Sloyan and it has raised a total of $2.89 Million over 4 funding rounds. The firm is based in Milton Keynes, England and the website has been featured on the BBC's Click TV Programme. The chairman is Rob Wilmot, one of the founding four members of Freeserve and the company has been a regular guest writer for The Guardian
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Naukri.com Naukri.com is an Indian job portal operating in India founded in March 1997.
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Scad (fraud) A scad is a scam disguised as an advertisement, usually in reference to internet spam. The term (which is a portmanteau of the words "scam" + "ad") has been used by the Alliance Against Bait and Click to describe scam ads that lure consumers to click on their site using a brand name or an outrageous deal while in turn providing suspect products and deals. This technique is called "bait and click" and has received significant press coverage from Consumer Reports Webwatch which has warned consumers to be wary of scads because they divert unsuspecting searchers from what they are looking for and waste their time. At worst, scads can send users to unsecured or malicious sites – exposing them to fraud, scams, viruses, exploits, trojans, malware, and spyware. Sponsored search results contain over twice as many risky sites as organic listings for the same search terms, according to a study by online security company McAfee. Scads exist in sponsored links and several have delivered Internet users to sites that charge for Firefox, a popular free web browser. One research study found that the display of a company's ads in response to searches for a competitor's brand name was not a widespread phenomenon.