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Internet Gangs Hire Students for Cybercrime
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 18:13:03 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Reuters. [snip] Organized gangs have adopted "KGB-style" tactics to hire high-flying computer students to commit Internet crime, a report said on Friday. Criminals are targeting universities, computer clubs and online forums to find undergraduates, according to Internet security firm McAfee. Some gangs have sponsored promising students from other disciplines to attend computer courses before planting them in businesses as "sleepers". McAfee said the students write computer viruses, commit identity theft and launder money in a multi-billion dollar industry that is more lucrative than the drugs trade. The gangs' tactics echo the way Russian agents sought out experts at trade conferences or universities during the Cold War, the company said in an annual report. [snip] More: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=20 06-12-08T085054Z_01_L08544066_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-HACKERS.xml - - ferg p.s. If anyone finds a link that McAfee report, let us know. :-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.1 (Build 1557) wj8DBQFFeasrq1pz9mNUZTMRArhHAKC6JOxZIirMvt6NyiSJ99qJtteyRQCcD8EO dLE4CvQQzv8vwh2eteF92dg= =rVCc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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