Hackers are ready to grab the oppotunity of one wrong move from you.

Hackers waiting for your one wrong move – Mobile Users Better Beware.

India is adding almost 8 million cell phone subscribers per month and SMS is the heavily used service. Hence it’s a boon for hackers to target such susceptible users.

Hackers waiting for your one wrong move – Mobile Users Better Beware.

One of the users recently got a SMS and was happy and amazed, thanked his/ her goodwill. This was because of a SMS that declared the user was a winner of $3 million prize from Shell International Mobile draw. To claim the amount, user was asked to send an e-mail and call Hackers waiting for your one wrong move – Mobile Users Better Beware.an international number. Later when she tried to recall if ever in the past the user had used any if the Shell products or service. Then to her amazement she had never done so. To get a clear picture of this message, the user called up the Shell International number, the officials denied by saying that there was no such draw that had been done and had not issued any award to anyone.

Hackers waiting for your one wrong move – Mobile Users Better Beware.

This is the world of vishing or voice phishing where hackers use VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol), SMS and Internet to bait someone. Hackers collect critical information, may be about your bank accounts saying they need to transfer the awarded amount to your account. But instead they do this for their own financial gains.

In the above given case the hacker used mobile spamming and vishing.

An estimated $2.8 billion have been lost because of Phishing, with a single victim losing $1,244 in 2006, whereas in 2005 it was $257.

There has been a substantial increase in phishing since the beginning of this year. 2006 was the first time when phishing was reported. Such attacks have increased on the US financial institutes and individual users.