Malware Goes Mobile! | Forensic 101
Everyone and everything is online now. We live our lives online, we chat online, we shop online and we even learn online. Our finances have shifted online too, especially post demonetisation. The government is striving to make our economy digital. Digital India is their goal. It sounds well and good. A digital economy will mean fewer cash frauds, easier transactions and a significant decrease in the flow of black money.
However, going digital isn’t really the safest bet. Hacking and online attacks are an everyday phenomenon. Online fraud, identity theft even online robberies happen all around the world on a daily basis. This is one of the main reasons we need to educate and take digital forensics seriously.
We at Forensic 101 create videos on the digital frauds and hacks that takes place in day to day life, hence educating people and making internet a safe place. We work closely with DIgital Forensic Solution companies and education institutes.
The growing popularity of smartphones and tablets have attracted the
attention of cybercriminals who see them as a great opportunity to get their hands on your information and money. Many of the threats, such as clicking on a dangerous link in an email or in search results, are the same as you would encounter on your computer, but there are other threats that are unique to mobile devices. For instance, you could accidentally download a malicious application that accesses your personal information such as personal photos, contacts and emails and sends it to a cybercriminal.
The Business of Malware:-
Banking Malware:- Banking malware is a big business. Fraudsters have built a highly specialized industry around capturing authentication information used to access online financial institutions.
Premium-rate SMS fraud:-
Users are tricked into responding to a text message, enabling a module which will start sending SMS messages to premium rate numbers at the user’s expense. Frequently these sites appear as gambling, music, or other seemingly benign services.
