Phish
So what bothers me about all of this reporting is that surely the reporters know that the presence of CVV and other indicators shows this is about people giving up their information to "phishers" because they are stupid. With all the warnings out there we constantly see customers on our financial site giving up their information whenever they are asked apparently.
They then get frustrated when their accounts are compromised and then they fix the PW with the company and they get comrpomised again. why? Because these people have the same password for their email account that they do for their financial account and the fraudsters know this. So they go through password change processes and the bad guys play along and get the new passwords too.
Alternatively little mom and pop ISPs will have their mail servers compromised and changing passwords on your account does no good because the BGs are now reading your emails. Several more reasons I am sure you are all aware of.
Anyhow my point is the tech media is not helpful when they publish this garbage and leave out important facts that could calm the public down. Why? Well obviously they want the exposure and sensationalism.
Why is the media not sitting down with experts and writing the easy stories that would show the public how to protect themselves? Not as exciting.
Anyhow after having helped put a few of these dirtbags in jail it is painfully obvious that they are winning because our media would rather raise a false alarm, worry the public and create sensational scary stories than help be part of the solution.
So now this fool in Bucharest or the Ukraine, wherever he may be, gets the attention he craves but does not deserve with these stories.
The guy is pardon the pun a talentless hack that has done nothing of great imagination and will continue to do so as long as the stories are written in a way to make him look like a super box breaker.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
