MySpace may be teeming with sexual predators, scammers, and married men pretending to be sweet 16-year-olds.
But there’s one less class of creep to worry about. Security experts said that cyber-criminals are showing little interest in attacking the web’s most popular social networking site.
Despite its uber-popularity among young Internet users, MySpace has been relatively low on the radar of hackers because it offers little financial gain, said experts.
“MySpace is not as attractive to criminals as, say, targeting PayPal or eBay which is where 75 percent of the phishing attacks at the moment are directed,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant with the security firm Sophos.
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