Seductive Russian chat bot tries to steal your private data

By Tim Conneally | Published December 13, 2007, 6:24 PM

From Russia, the land well-publicized for bringing the Internet questionable music service AllofMP3.com and mafia-related bank scams, comes a new kind of chat bot.

Called Cyberlover, the program is an application that claims to intelligently fabricate chat room dialogue that seduces its victims into sharing personal photos and phone numbers. In half an hour, the program can supposedly secure 4 to 6 "contacts."

The product is said to automatically create profiles for each person it chats with, which include the photograph, e-mail address, and phone number obtained from the girl --it's targeted at females, but can be tailored to males. The bot is sold for $24.95 USD.

The software's site is only a front page full of dead links, but a message in English placed across the top says it will be back on February 15, and provides a link to software screenshots along with the Botmaster site.

Chat bots often fill chat rooms with advertisements and randomly pop up on users of Yahoo! Messenger and AIM. Considered a nuisance by many, these conversation programs are an important step in the development of artificial intelligence, and have been growing since the mid 1960s. But Cyberlover appears to be the first instance of a bot trying to seduce individuals in order to steal their personal data.

Comments

bot: hey ur cute!
bot: a/s/l
bot: i luv ur pic! let me call you sometime!

if people actually fall for that crap they need to get a life outside of a chat room. Kip Dynamite is unavailable for comments.

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From Russia, the land well-publicized for bringing the Internet questionable music service AllofMP3.com and mafia-related bank scams...

blabla... dont you know tsrh ? $)

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Hah. What they don't know, is I helped (accidentally) fund/operate many of those mafia-related bank scams.

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best thing to do is give it false infromation

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i wonder what would happend if one of these bots would try to seduce another bot... love at first chat?

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Oh, so it's a social engineering bot. I have to lookout for stuff like this at my work. I wonder if it's based on Kevin Mitnick in any way.

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I fell for this scam too......

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Hard to believe...

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Bot "Hi lover, can I have your Bank Details"
SJS "Sure thing :-)"

As if !!!

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