Loading ...You all must be aware of what spying refers to. In easy to comprehend terms, gathering information about someone or something secretly is spying. Cyber spying is almost similar; however there are a few differences as well. One is that such information is gathered or is stolen from your own PCs and you never realize it until its too late. Second is that there is no human spy working on the front for this. In fact cyber spying is the handiwork of malware or spyware deployed by hackers in your computer. And all this is done when the actual master minds behind all this are sitting in some entirely different part of the globe.
Now you may be thinking as to what can be the reason behind doing all this. Or maybe what do these people get by doing all this. Well there are numerous things that can be done or can happen if your info leaks out through these Trojans and malware.
The modus operendi followed in cyber spying is simple. It is commonly done using ordinary e-mails to start with. A very safe and ordinary looking e-mail is sent to the end user with an attached document. The end user usually gets such e-mails from what seems to be a known e-mail id. But actually, everything in it is nothing else but fake. The attachments in such e-mails too appear to be safe being mostly in PDF, DOC, XLS, or PPT formats. Attackers use the discrepancies in these files to infect the end user’s PC. Hidden with these files is a binary code that gets executed when such files are opened. Once activated, the code creates two malicious files.
The first one being a clean file opens on the PC screen and distracts the victim from what is happening in the system. The second file, which is actually a backdoor program executes itself instantly, and gets hidden in the system. From there, this file connects the end user’s PC to the selected network location where the sender of the e-mail is sitting. This way the actual culprit gains access to the end user’s PC and steals his personal information thus victimizing him. The hacker can use this information for money making, blackmailing, forgery, etc. What else can these attackers do once they gain access to the PC is something normally you can’t think of. It’s much more than what you can imagine.
Just make sure that your PC and the information contained in it is safe. The best and the safest way is to keep your important data in a PC with no Internet connection. If that’s not possible somehow then always try to have the best and the strongest of the firewall and antivirus installed in your PC.
