Malware Aimed at Social Networks May Steal your Reality

Searching_ _ _ · Oct 12, 2010

Yaniv Altshuler from Ben Gurion University and other computer scientists proposed that a new generation of malware will target and extract information about relationships and record patterns of links in a real-world social network.

Some traditional malware attacks spread by using an email program's address book or a mobile phone's contact list. A non-aggressive malware agent could lurk, much like a social engineer or a smart hacker, to gather information as opposed to alerting the targeted victim. This allows an attacker to build an extremely detailed picture of the victim's lifestyle, personality, interests and influence. In the same way, a malware behavioral pattern attack created to steal reality can harvest a "rich identity" profile of the victim. This stolen data is much more valuable than the demographic information of sex, age and general information that is commonly used now to profile users for advertisers and spammer.

Researchers wrote, "A Stealing Reality type of malware attack, which is targeted at learning the social communication patterns, could 'piggyback' on the user generated messages, or imitate their natural patterns, thus not drawing attention to itself while still achieving its target goals....There is no reason to think that developers of malicious applications will not implement the same method and algorithms into future malware, or that they have not already started doing so."
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Malware Aimed at Social Networks May Steal your Reality

blazr63 · Oct 14, 2010

What WILL they think of next?

Searching_ _ _ · Oct 14, 2010

People are asleep or unconcerned by malware news today and sometimes it's a disconnection between coders and non coders. But I have noticed a lack of malware news in any event.

Advertisers and three letter groups that use malware may adopt this type but who else could have a use for it?

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