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Police use hacker forum material as training manuals
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:07:53 -0600 (CST)
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/281140,police-use-hacker-forum-material-as-training-manuals.aspx By Liz Tay iTnews.com.au Nov 24, 2011 Strike forces identify 'plenty of young Aussies' underground.NSW Police has appropriated material from criminal credit card trading forums as training manuals in its fight against credit card fraud.
Detective inspector Bruce van der Graaf described a thriving, organised marketplace for stolen identity and credit card details at SC Magazine’s ‘Security on the Move’ event in Sydney today.
Although international law enforcement has eyed credit card fraud, or ‘carding’, for the past decade, thieves continue to operate on private networks and overt online forums.
Van der Graff played a recruitment video by Russian hacker ‘PlayBoy’ that spruiked the ease, lifestyle and financial rewards of credit card fraud.
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