Net criminals shun virus attacks
Hi-tech criminals have found novel ways to carry out web-based attacks that are much harder to spot and stop, warn security experts.
Some cyber criminals have exploited file-sharing networks and popular webpages to attack targets. The malicious hackers have turned to these methods instead of going to the trouble of hijacking home PCs.
Using these methods the hi-tech criminals have staged some of the biggest attacks security experts have ever seen. For some time the tool of choice for hi-tech criminals has been a botnets of hijacked home PCs. Botnets are collections of computers under the remote control of a hi-tech criminal.
