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As if there needed to be another reason to be wary of chat rooms geared toward meeting people and having flirtatious, cyber-relations with them, doing so can now put you at increased risk of identity theft.
CyberLover.ru, a new site out of Russia, boasts that buyers of its software will be able to trick unsuspecting marks into handing over their personal information. CyberLover.ru's sexy bot can allegedly drum up salacious conversations using 10 different personalities that are so life-like that the victims will hand over their photos, phone numbers, and more at the drop of a negligee. The program can also be tailored towards either gender, and be used to obtain other forms of data, says the company.
Security software company PC Tools warns that the bot can easily be used for malicious purposes. The company said that the program's ability to mimic human behavior to dupe chatters is worrisome, and could readily be used to collect all manner of information. "As a tool that can be used by hackers to conduct identity fraud, CyberLover demonstrates an unprecedented level of social engineering," said PC Tools senior malware analyst Sergei Shevchenko in a statement. "CyberLover has been designed as a bot [robot] that lures victims automatically, without human intervention. If it's spawned in multiple instances on multiple servers, the number of potential victims could be very substantial."
The bot is able to simulate a number of different personalities, ranging from "romantic lover" to—this is not a joke—"sexual predator" (Mmm, I know that one really gets me going on those cold, lonely Friday nights). Once it collects the personal data of whoever it is chatting with, the bot then stores it all and sends it to its owner. PC Tools warns that the bot also lures lonely users to visit a website or blog, "which could in fact be a fake page used to automatically infect visitors with malware."
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By Jacqui Cheng
December 14, 2007
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