{"id":1833,"date":"2005-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/09\/14\/one-in-six-spyware-apps-tries-to-steal-identities\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:05","slug":"one-in-six-spyware-apps-tries-to-steal-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/09\/14\/one-in-six-spyware-apps-tries-to-steal-identities\/","title":{"rendered":"One-In-Six Spyware Apps Tries To Steal Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A significant portion of spyware is designed specifically to steal identities, underscoring the trend toward more malicious use of such software by criminals, said a security firm.  Fifteen percent of the 2,000 known spyware threats analyzed by Aladdin Knowledge Systems over a two-month span send private information gathered from the infected PC by logging keystrokes, capturing usernames and passwords, and hijacking e-mail address and contact lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About one-in-six pieces of spyware &#8212; a category that also includes adware &#8212; is &#8220;specifically designed for identity theft,&#8221; said Aladdin in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Another 25 percent of the spyware examined gathers information non-identity information, but was classified by Aladdin as a &#8220;moderate threat&#8221; because these programs collect such data as the victim PC&#8217;s operating system, domain name, process logs, security applications, IP address, and security updates installed.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining 60 percent, said Aladdin, gathered &#8220;commercial-value information about the end user&#8217;s browsing habits,&#8221; the traditional definition of the often noxious but rarely dangerous adware.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.techweb.com\/wire\/security\/170703179;jsessionid=KK01LHWEU4STQQSNDBCSKH0CJUMEKJVN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4320,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/4320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}