salami attack
n. A series of minor computer crimes—slices of a larger crime—that are difficult to detect and trace.
In
the salami technique, cyber criminals steal money or resources a bit at
a time. The key here is to make the alteration so insignificant that in
a single case it would go completely unnoticed.
E.g.
a bank employee inserts a program, into the bank's servers, that
deducts a small amount of money (say Rs. 5 a month) from the account of
every customer. No account holder will probably notice this unauthorized
debit, but the cyber criminal will make a sizable amount of money every
month.
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