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Spyware Based ID Theft Ring Uncovered

Posted by Zonk on from the dirty-pool dept.

phaedo00 wrote to mention an Ars Technica article discussing a massive identity theft ring uncovered by security software firm Sunbelt. From the article:"According to one of their employees, Alex Eckelberry, during the course of one of their recent investigations into a particular Spyware application--rumored to be called CoolWebSearch--they've discovered that the personal information of those 'infected' was being captured and uploaded to a server."

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  1. Wow... by HyperShadowDC · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have had to delete this numerous times on my parent's computers... I'm gonna have to go and make sure it's still not on there.

  2. Pedantic comment by SA+Stevens · · Score: 1, Funny

    How can it be called ID Theft if the original owner still has his identity?

    1. Re:Pedantic comment by Dunbal · · Score: 4, Funny

      How can it be called ID Theft if the original owner still has his identity?

            You're right. It sounds more like ID Piracy arr arr...! That's good, everyone knows the penalties for piracy are much steeper than those for theft...(ducking).

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      Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
  3. Re:It's unbelievable at times by rathehun · · Score: 2, Funny
    I spent an hour downloading CWSShredder, Spybot, Ad-Awaare, et al before I connected to the 'net.
    How?