{"id":1267,"date":"2010-12-16T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T21:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/16\/how-the-online-trojanvirus-hackers-make-money\/"},"modified":"2010-12-16T13:59:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T21:59:20","slug":"how-the-online-trojanvirus-hackers-make-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/how-the-online-trojanvirus-hackers-make-money\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Online Trojan\/Virus Hackers Make Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great flow chart, explaining how the Dark Side of the internet uses your unwary clicks to generate real money. (h\/t <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/computerschool.org\/computers\/malware\/\">ComputerSchool.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to see the actual breakdown of how stealing your passwords and compromising your bank accounts can pay off for fraudsters. I was surprised to see that bank account passwords are not as valuable as I thought &#8211; only a 1% return, because of &#8220;risks for withdrawing the money.&#8221; Woulda thought the scammers were better than that &#8211; a couple years ago, my accounts were drained using withdrawals from ATMs at casinos out in the No-Man&#8217;s-Land between LA and Vegas. Guess they must&#8217;ve patched that particular security hole. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is one of the more interesting (and frequently alarming) flow charts I&#8217;ve run across in a while. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerschool.org\/computers\/malware\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.computerschool.org\/images\/malware.png\" alt=\"Malware.\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerschool.org\/computers\/\">Infographic<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerschool.org\/\">Computer School<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"technorati-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Malware\" rel=\"tag\">Malware<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/avoid%20viruses\" rel=\"tag\">avoid viruses<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/trojans\" rel=\"tag\">trojans<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/passwords%20stolen\" rel=\"tag\">passwords stolen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great flow chart, explaining how the Dark Side of the internet uses your unwary clicks to generate real money. (h\/t ComputerSchool.org) It&#8217;s interesting to see the actual breakdown of how stealing your passwords and compromising your bank accounts can pay off for fraudsters. I was surprised to see that bank account passwords [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[859,53,54,30,55,390],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adsense-clickfraud","tag-adsense-clickfraud","tag-spam","tag-unconventional-research","tag-visual-storytelling","tag-webconomics","tag-webscams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}