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Cisco, Panda Identify Cybercrime Trends: Page 2 of 2

Trust exploitation is a growing problem that incorporates social engineering scams based on what Cisco calls the "seven deadly weaknesses": sex appeal, greed, vanity, trust, sloth, compassion and urgency. The attacks can come from e-mails, social networking chats and phone calls.

Unlike Cisco's report, PandaLabs Black Market Report focuses on the SMB market. According to Panda Security, the cybercrime black market is a rapidly growing industry of cybercriminals and hackers who are making a business out of stealing personal information for financial profit.

This marketplace involves selling such items as bank credentials, log-ins, passwords, fake credit cards and more. Cloned credit/debit cards start as low as $180, with card cloning machines running from $200 to $1,000, and even fake ATM machines are available from $3,500.