Hackers Take Advantage of Users that Miss a Full Stop

Hackers Take Advantage of Users that Miss a Full Stop

IT Support is necessary when talking about the IT security of IT connectivity users that surf the Internet and miss a little thing such as a full stop. The reason is the fact that cyber criminals do their best to find new ways of making innocent people visit shady websites. The new thing on their agenda is exploiting poor punctuation. This comes according to a report made by domain management IT company CSC Labs.

David Emm, senior technology consultant at Kapersky Labs, said in a statement that “In terms of distribution of malware, what we’ve found over the past few years is that hackers are using websites to host malware, whether these be malicious sites or legitimate sites that have been compromised.” So, hackers take advantage of common errors such as prefixes missed: 'the', 'e' and 'my'. “Cybersquatting is a bigger issue in terms of legal and brand image. Let’s say a well-known company has a site variation that it hasn’t adopted… in the past people were looking to cash in on it by buying it and trying to sell it to the company,” he added.