Fraudsters focus on job sites

Prospective workers that use job sites to gain exposure for their résumés may also be exposing their personal information to fraudsters, according to recent research by security companies.

On Friday, two security firms reported that malicious programs had stolen information on hundreds of thousands of people from Monster.com and other major online job-searching Web sites. Security company Symantec, the owner of SecurityFocus, reported on Friday that a program it had dubbed Infostealer.Monstres had use credentials for job site Monster.com to build a database of details on several hundred thousand people.

The same day, researchers from managed security firm SecureWorks described finding a large cache of data, representing information on almost 46,000 job seekers. That information had been stolen using a malicious program, which SecureWorks called the Prg Trojan, that infected victims through advertisements appearing on job-search sites, SecureWorks researcher Don Jackson said in a blog post. [ ... more ]

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