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Watch out next time you’re flirting in online dating sites and chat-rooms – you could be chatting up a virus called CyberLover which conducts fully-automated, suggestive conversations with users, luring them to malicious websites or convincing them to share their identity.

Developed in Russia, the virus can establish a new relationship with up to 10 partners in just 30 minutes and its victims cannot distinguish it from a human being. According to IT researchers PC Tools who are bringing CyberLover public, the program’s ability to mimic human behaviour during online interactions is uncanny.
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According to PC Tools, CyberLover indicates a new breed of software that can easily be used for malicious purposes, indicating a dangerous new trend in malware evolution.<\/P>

“As a tool that can be used by hackers to conduct identity fraud, CyberLover demonstrates an unprecedented level of social engineering,” says PC Tools senior malware analyst, Sergei Shevchenko.<\/P>

“It employs highly intelligent and customised dialogue to target users of social networking systems.”<\/P>

Shevchenko says internet users today are generally aware of the dangers of opening suspicious attachments and visiting unusual URLs, but CyberLover employs a new technique that is unheard of.<\/P>

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“That’s what makes it particularly dangerous,” he said.<\/P>

“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.”<\/P>

The CyberLover software offers a variety of profiles ranging from “romantic lover” to “sexual predator”, and uses a series of easily configurable “dialogue scenarios” with preprogrammed questions and discussion topics. It can also recognise the responses of chat-room users to tailor its interaction accordingly, and compiles a detailed report on every person it meets and submits them to a remote source – the reports contain confidential information that the victim has shared with the bot, which can include the victim’s name, contact details and personal photo(s).<\/P>

The bot can invites victims to visit a “personal” website or blog which could in fact be a fake page used to automatically infect visitors with malware.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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