Adware and Spyware Detection Using Classification and Association

How to punish cyber criminals: A study to investigate the target and consequence based punishments for malware attacks in UK, USA, China, Ethiopia & Pakistan

“…Upon downloading on the victim's device, it secretly monitors and records all the activities of the victim such as login name and password credentials, credit card and bank details, and browsing and searching history. This information is then transferred to the attacker via the Internet who uses this information for his own benefits or sells it to a third party such as advertisers, spammers, scammers, or hackers [34] . Spyware can also cause other severe damages such as locking a victim's device, disabling antivirus programs or security related notifications, recording live videos and taking pictures using a mobile camera (front and back camera), viewing device specifications, installing or uninstalling apps, recording conversations using the microphone, track victim's current geographic location and transferred it to the third party, record incoming and outgoing calls and so on.…”