Criminals Increase Their Use of Keyloggers, According to Experts

According to Andrew Brandt, a senior associate editor of PC World Magazine, criminals are increasingly turning to keylogging as a technique for stealing your personal and financial information. Although phishing was once the primary technique for criminals hoping to steal your financial information, as consumers become more aware of phishing and better able to avoid such schemes, criminals have turned to keyloggers. Detecting keyloggers has therefore become a prime subject of recent IT security.

Consumers are increasingly becoming the target of keylogging programs implemented by criminals looking to steal their information, and according to Brandt, keylogging programs have more than doubled as a result. The rise in keylogging crime has led to some $2.75 billion in losses, and a large portion of consumers continue to be unaware of the dangers that keylogging poses.

A criminal can install a keylogger on your system in many different ways. It could be installed while you are browsing a malicious website, from a malicious email attachment, or even manually when an identity thief has physical access to your computer. You can only remove a keylogger from your computer if you are aware that the keylogger is there in the first place, and to do so you must have a trusted anti keylogger installed on your computer. You must run regular anti keylogging scans with your anti keylogging software because many times a consumer only becomes aware of a keylogger once their information has already been stolen, at which point it is already too late.

Phishing worked well until consumers became aware of these phishing techniques and began to protect themselves; when will you begin to protect yourself against keyloggers? To keep on top of your keylogger safety get our free e-book "Protecting Yourself from Keyloggers" when you subscribe to the SpyReveal newsletter.

You can read the full article by PC World's Andrew Brandt at the following link: Criminals and Anti Keyloggers