Ready For the Phishing Attack
Ready For the Phishing Attack
December 4, 2006: Another security vendor has put out the Christmas message on spam. But this time, TrustDefender points specifically to Phishing as being particularly dangerous over the holiday period.
Christmas time is shopping time and that means online transactions galore in the weeks leading up to December 25.TrustDefenders says this is also when online criminals get busy, targeting the spike in online transactions to create their own festivities.
The current perception of Phishing involves emails sent to your inbox posing as ‘reputable’ finance related sites. Ted Egan, co-founder and director of TrustDefender, says this perception is far from the reality of cyber criminals as online fraud is increasingly attributed to Trojans, viruses and even rootkits operating on computers.
“The issue here is to detect the unknown and potentially malicious software or applications residing on your computer and isolate them before you carry out your online transactions,” says Egan.
With these rising threats, TrustDefender is chasing the market with its TrustDefender Gold release, a solution designed to protect both consumer and business data in online transactions. TrustDefender says the software can protect sensitive data from Trojans that can access PCs and steal banking details.
As it is now a browser-based plug-in, TrustDefender says its Gold product can’t be hacked as it functions totally independently from browsers.
“The issue here is to detect the unknown and potentially malicious software or applications residing on your computer and isolate them before you carry out your online transactions,” says Egan. “Heuristic scanning methods in today’s anti-virus programs are not picking up the most sophisticated hidden Trojans and viruses, whereas the phishing and Pharming filters seemed to have failed most tests.”
“Our software has been developed to complement current Anti-Virus and online security vendors and succeed in areas in which they fail to identify unknown crime-ware,” he says.