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The Criminal Underground: A Walk on the Dark Side
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 07:19:35 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Economist.com. [snip] According to VeriSign, one of the worlds largest internet security companies, RBN, an internet company based in Russias second city, St Petersburg, is the baddest of the bad. In a report seen by The Economist, VeriSigns investigators unpick an extraordinary story of blatant cybercrime that implies high-level political backing. In one sense, RBN (Russian Business Network) does not exist. It has no legal identity; it is not registered as a company; its senior figures are anonymous, known only by their nicknames. Its web sites are registered at anonymous addresses with dummy e-mails. It does not advertise for customers. Those who want to use its services contact it via internet messaging services and pay with anonymous electronic cash. But the menace it poses certainly exists. RBN is a for-hire service catering to large-scale criminal operations, says the report. It hosts cybercriminals, ranging from spammers to phishers, bot-herders and all manner of other fraudsters and wrongdoers from the venal to the vicious. Just one big scam, called Rock Phish (where gullible internet users were tricked into entering personal financial information such as bank account details) made $150m last year, VeriSign estimates. [snip] More: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=7933606&story_id=972376 8 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFG2RKBq1pz9mNUZTMRAkxeAKC1HtyfkZ2sbMKTT53WnqTcvvgYFACfXens AUJp6FXIr+JwqJJjxJPMsYY= =90LV -----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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- Re: The Criminal Underground: A Walk on the Dark Side coderman (Sep 05)
- Re: The Criminal Underground: A Walk on the Dark Side Dude VanWinkle (Sep 05)
- Re: The Criminal Underground: A Walk on the Dark Side Dude VanWinkle (Sep 04)