Rock Phish attacks account for 50 percent of phishing incidents and have stolen “tens of millions of dollars” from bank accounts. This is the first time crimeware has been used in a Rock Phish attack. The victims of these phishing attacks get their personal data stolen and are infected by the Zeus Trojan, which is even worst for victims. In 2004 it was the first (and, for a long time, they were the only) gang to employ bot-nets in its phishing infrastructure in order to make the attacks live longer and be more scalable. It also pioneered new techniques in its spam mails so the mail could more easily evade spam filters. Within the past few weeks there has been a new advance — the inclusion of identity theft malware (or Crimeware) into the Rock group’s phishing attacks. While the term "botnet" can be used to refer to any group of bots, such as IRC bots , the word is generally used to refer to a collection of compromised computers (called zombie computers) running programs, usua...