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Beware: FraudFox VM Software Gives Hackers Ability to Empty Your Bank Accounts

Posted: January 22, 2015

fraudfox vm hackers attack online banking accountsWouldn't it be a bad day if you woke up to check your banking account online only to find out your hard earned money was emptied out by some hacker using a specialized application? Sure it would. You would be devastated, and your life could be on its way to being flipped upside-down.

Thinking of the scenario of your online banking account getting cleaned out is not as far-fetched as you may think. As it turns out, there is a tool making the rounds on the Internet readily available to hackers or those with enough know-how to use the tool. It is called FraudFox VM, a specialized version of Windows with a modified version of the Firefox web browser running on VMware's Workstation of Windows or VMware Fusion on Mac OSX. The software enables fraudsters to appear as a legitimate entity when browsing the Internet so they may spoof a browser fingerprint. Through such a method fraudsters can match the fingerprint used by a victim's computer to access their account on the Internet.

Fundamentally, the FraudFox VM software is a way to pretend that the computer accessing a banking account on the Internet has access the same account previously. Doing so will trick the banking system into thinking that the person accessing the account is utilizing their computer and then fails to place any roadblocks in the way of access. You can think of FraudFox VM being a virtual replacement for your very own computer bypassing any additional security checks that are usually presented when logging into an account from a public computer or one appears "new" to the banking login system.

The intricate features of FraudFox VM are quite advanced. The software allows a user, or in most cases – a hacker, to select an Operating system and its version through drop-down menu boxes. Additionally, the OS can be set as 32-bit or 64-bit, the language, time zone and even screen resolution size. All of these sets may be customized for the ultimate spoofing. The software will even go as far as to allow you to set the version of Adobe Flash that you want to run.

FraudFox VM seems like an application custom tailored for spoofing sites on the shopping front over the Internet. It would be very useful for e-commerce in that you can generate a false identity and all information that a shopping or banking site collects would be false, eventually identifying a bogus identity.

Through a profile generator script, FraudFox may be able to be used with phishing pages that lure victims to collect their web browser's fingerprint. In that, FraudFox VM will quickly obtain the proper fingerprint of a victim so the attacker may customize access to infiltrate an online account without facing any security measures.

Hackers and cybercrooks are always on the lookout for products like FraudFox VM. In a way, FraudFox is a dream come true for those who are willing to do the unthinkable over the internet and pilfer online banking accounts or trick e-commerce sites. It's a travesty waiting to happen, which is why you should always keep your own software updated while running the latest version of a trusted antimalware/antispwyare application.

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