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cybercrime
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cybercrime noun a criminal offense on the Web, a criminal offense regarding the Internet, a violation of law on the Internet, an illegality committed with regard to the Internet, breach of law on the Internet, computer crime, connravention through the Web, corruption regarding Internet, criminal activity on the Internet, disrupting operations through malevolent programs on the Internet, eleccric crime, Internet crime, sale of contraband on the Internet, stalking victims on the Internet, theft of identify on the Internet
Associated concepts: copyright theft through cybercrime, cyber laws, hacking, privacy


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And, data that is being stored should be protected and rendered unreadable so if a cybercriminal gets it, they can't use it.
As it is a distributed attack, it is very difficult to see where the threat is coming from as the cybercriminal will likely be using public systems they have compromised to carry out the attack.
The attack, which Finjan has designated "random js toolkit," is an extremely elusive crimeware Trojan that infects an end user's machine and sends data from the machine via the Internet to the Trojan's "master", a cybercriminal.
 
 
 
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