This is indeed true and has been going on for some time. I would question the fact that this is a social engineering attack as, deceptive as it may be, conventional methods would tend to be initiated by the attacker, whereas the victim in this case would be looking for something and not "minding their own business" so to say.
It is only in cases where innocent users of shared computers become victims from these attacks that I have sympathy for the victim. People who use such software are intending on breaking the law by infringing copyright.
These sorts of attack are not confined to the keygenerator designed by macROSS for Adobe CS3, but are spread across various pieces of software, P2P networks and malicious websites.
If you are reading this and you have used such software, don't be lulled in to a false sense of security by the anti-virus or firewall you may have installed on your computer. Modern more-sophisticated trojans are designed to stop/corrupt/disable such software, sometimes without it even being evident. Hardware firewalls (such as those on routers) are ineffective againt reverse connection software. I'm not going to give advice as to how to protect yourself. Don't be a knock off Nigel, buy the software and stay out of trouble. | | John Doe | | Date: 2008-01-09, 13:15 GMT |
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