Crimeware

Crimeware ( a portmanteau of Engl. Criminal and Software ) is an advanced form of economic criminals of malware that counts criminological cybercrime and is legally to settle among Internet fraud.

Propagation of crimeware

Especially in 2006, the crimeware held worldwide collection. This is malware that makes either malicious programs installed on the hard drive of the infected computer and at worst, the computer sets agreed working operations, for example by changing the configuration incapacitated or booting of the data stored on disk operating systems by deleting the Master Boot Records impossible; economic damage is possibly caused by the so- at least temporarily inoperable computer. Furthermore, can be spied on (in this case at the software level ) data bank or similar confidential information, for example by keyloggers. Even so-called botnets, which serve, for example, to send spam mails and ransomware which serves to blackmail the affected users are placed in this area.

The operators with crimeware infected sites often sit well camouflaged in non-European countries, what law enforcement difficult or very frustrated.