Wednesday 21 August 2013

Zeus attack the social network

He began his "career" as a virus that steals credit card data, but has come to "steal" likes and followers on Instagram. The popularity of applications has led hackers to think of such a possibility to commercialize user accounts and work on them.Virus victims are five times more valuable than credit cards robbed by the same guy on the program.
Intention is one that can bring money, 1,000 followers is "selling" $ 15, while 1,000 likes worth $ 30 on the black market. Market "swallows" almost anything Hotmail accounts , Twitter accounts ($ 20 for 1,000 such accounts, while Google and Facebook are selling more expensive ($ 100 for 1000 "chunks").  
According to Reuters, some artificial popularity online can be beneficial (because, you know, bring online popularity in the online environment). Experts argue that online social data collected from Instagram are more important than me about a book you think, for example.

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