Monster.com Trojan recruits 'money mules' from victim pool

Meanwhile, the job search site says it's shut down the hacker's server

The Trojan responsible for stealing more than 1.6 million personal records from Monster.com uses that information to build targeted spam that offers recipients lucrative, but illegal, money laundering jobs, effectively turning some victims into criminal accomplices, said Symantec Corp. today.

Monster.com, meanwhile, said today it had shut down the server used to store the stolen resume information.

Earlier this week, Symantec fingered Infostealer.Monstres for using stolen Monster.com log-ons to run automated searches that have collected information on hundreds of thousands who have posted their resumes on the job search site.

Source:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9032278&source=rss_topic85

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