In what year was the employment website created which was later attacked by the Zeus Trojan Horse malware?
Zeus (malware) Zeus, ZeuS, or Zbot is a Trojan horse malware package that runs on versions of Microsoft Windows. While it can be used to carry out many malicious and criminal tasks, it is often used to steal banking information by man-in-the-browser keystroke logging and form grabbing. It is also used to install the CryptoLocker ransomware. Zeus is spread mainly through drive-by downloads and phishing schemes. First identified in July 2007 when it was used to steal information from the United States Department of Transportation, it became more widespread in March 2009. In June 2009 security company Prevx discovered that Zeus had compromised over 74,000 FTP accounts on websites of such companies as the Bank of America, NASA, Monster.com, ABC, Oracle, Play.com, Cisco, Amazon, and "BusinessWeek". Similarly to Koobface, Zeus has also been used to trick victims of tech support scams into giving the scam artists money through pop-up messages that claim the user has a virus, when in reality they might have no viruses at all. The scammers may use programs such as Command prompt or Event viewer to make the user believe that their computer is infected.
Scad (fraud) A scad is a scam disguised as an advertisement, usually in reference to internet spam. The term (which is a portmanteau of the words "scam" + "ad") has been used by the Alliance Against Bait and Click to describe scam ads that lure consumers to click on their site using a brand name or an outrageous deal while in turn providing suspect products and deals. This technique is called "bait and click" and has received significant press coverage from Consumer Reports Webwatch which has warned consumers to be wary of scads because they divert unsuspecting searchers from what they are looking for and waste their time. At worst, scads can send users to unsecured or malicious sites – exposing them to fraud, scams, viruses, exploits, trojans, malware, and spyware. Sponsored search results contain over twice as many risky sites as organic listings for the same search terms, according to a study by online security company McAfee. Scads exist in sponsored links and several have delivered Internet users to sites that charge for Firefox, a popular free web browser. One research study found that the display of a company's ads in response to searches for a competitor's brand name was not a widespread phenomenon.