Internet Gangs Hire Students for Cybercrime

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Reuters.

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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.

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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. :-)

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