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POPSUnderground Economy doing well If criminals snagged $350 worth of goods out of each credit card on offer, the potential total worth of the online market would be $5.3 billion, according to the report (.pdf). If scammers could get $40,000 out of each bank account, then some $1.7 billion worth of bank accounts were on offer.
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POPS Cybercrime Gang Suddenly Vanishes From Web A report from Symantec, the online security firm, alleges that the RBN has links with the criminal underground and government in Russia. However, in recent days huge numbers of RBN-hosted sites have disappeared from the Web, leading analysts to speculate that the group is revamping its business model. "RBN is reorganizing," said Raimund Genes, the chief technology officer of Trend Micro, a security group that has traced attacks by the RBN on corporate and government sites across Europe and US back to servers based in Panama. One reason is thought to be the recent threats by Russian authorities to impose tougher penalties on Internet criminals. Another was that large legitimate Internet service providers — which the RBN relies on to provide it with Internet access — have dropped it as a customer as its activities became more and more notorious
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POPSIllicit Cybeconomy Die Täter ersteigern über Kundenkonten von Online-Auktionshäusern wie eBay, hochpreisige Produkte und weisen die Verkäufer an, wohin die Ware zu liefern sei, was im Handel völlig normal ist. So gelangt die Ware zu den Warenagenten. Bezahlt wird die Ware von den Tätern mit von Online-Bankkonten abgephishtem oder per Kreditkartenbetrug kassiertem Geld. Die Warenagenten leiten die Waren nach Angaben ihrer Auftraggebe weiter. Dadurch gelangen die kriminellen Job-Anbieter anonym an mit fremdem Geld bezahlte Waren, die sie anschließend weiterveräußern. Derartige Kooperationsgruppen sind oft Handlangerabteilungen grösserer krimineller Unternehmungen, die auf diesem Weg neue Hilfskräfte für ihre unterschiedlichsten Aktivitäten und Operationen anfüttern, ausbilden, selektionieren und rekrutieren.
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POPSDo yourself a favor.. Don't Respond "Due to any threat of violence inherent in these extortation emails , if you receive an email that contains personally identifiable information that might differentiate your email from the general email spam campaign, we encourage you to contact the police, " advises the FBI.
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POPSFace to Face with Chinese Hackers CNN does a nice short profile of a few Chinese hackers who claim to have penetrated the Pentagon. It's hard to imagine that these are the real masterminds behind Titan Rain and the Pentagon hackings from last summer--more likely they're what some government cyber security experts call "ankle biters." Even so, it makes for an interesting interview.
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POPSMicrosoft Gives Cyber "Skeleton Key" to Cops This may be necessary for effective law enforcement, but the idea of making it a physical device is a little scary. It won't be long before one of these ends up in the hands of cybercriminals. What security measures stop them from getting as much access as the police?
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POPSFake Security Software In Millions Of Computers Oh Boy! A new computer scam. ""In terms of the number of people who potentially have this in their machines, it's tens of millions," Weafer said." It was also impossible to tell how much cyberthieves made off with but "affiliates" acting as middlemen to convince people to download the software were believed to earn between 1 cent per download and 55 cents. TrafficConverter.biz, which has been shut down, had boasted that its top affiliates earned as much as $332,000 a month for selling scam security software, according to Weafer."
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