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Children Used To Steal Parents' Data

Posted by samzenpus on from the virtual-fagin dept.

Barence writes "PC Pro's Davey Winder has revealed how pre-school children are being targeted by data thieves. Security vendors have uncovered a bunch of Flash-based games, colorful and attractive to young kids, which came complete with a remote access trojan. The trojan is usually installed behind a button to download more free games, but BitDefender even found one painting application where the very act of swiping the paintbrush over an online pet to change the color of the virtual animal was enough to trigger redirection to an infected site."

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  1. And parents wonder by houstonbofh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And parents wonder why they can't let the kids use the work laptop. It's because we're Ogres! Ogres, Damnit!

    1. Re:And parents wonder by Gerzel · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Depends on when the keylogger starts vs the login.

      If the two accounts are properly separated then the children's account should never have the access to install anything that could be run before the user login. Of course with Windows all bets are off.

    2. Re:And parents wonder by Endovior · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Virtual Machines. They're a beautiful thing. Trojans, viruses, keyloggers... who cares? Just revert your system back to the last snapshot, and it's like it never happened... and even the worst of what does happen, won't ever affect your important materials.

  2. Re:True that by Dwedit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, with iPads, instead you have to worry about games where you pay for in-game goods with real money tied to the iTunes account.