Crimeware is the term the Anti-Phishing Working Group coined to refer to any malicious code designed and used for the commission of a crime.

Programs that demand a payment to undo or prevent consequences are called ransomware.

Clicks4Hire is a scheme to defraud Internet advertising and marketing companies that pay hosting Web sites for the number of visits to their clients Web sites that come from clicking on the hosting Web sites banners.

LooksTooGoodToBeTrue.com is a U.S. Postal Inspectors Web site for consumers to check out an offer to see whether it is a known scam.

The 2005 edition of Counterpane and MessageLabs Attack Trends is available from Counterpane and MessageLabs.

2005 Attack Trends & Analysis, released by Counterpane Internet Security and MessageLabs and based on data collected by these organizations security monitoring services, ranks banks and other financial institutions as the target of almost 40 percent of all Trojan attacks, and the pharmaceutical sector as the market sector target of almost 50 percent of spyware attacks.

Phishing An attempt to defraud customer of a targeted business using authentic looking bait, usually an email, claiming something bad has happened or soon will and you need to act now to prevent or recovery from the bad thing. If the victim takes the bait they click on a link that takes them to a site which...