From Russia With Malice: Criminals Trawl The World

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via TheAge.com.au.

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If it weren't true, it would be the script for the next Bond movie.

The mission: to eliminate a man. Codename: "flyman". Elite hacker.
Suspected head of the so-called "Russian Business Network", a hotbed of
cyber-fraud, child pornography and malicious "bot-nets" that wreaks havoc
across the internet from its St Petersburg base.

"We don't know who he is," admits Rick Howard, director of intelligence at
Virginia-based internet security company VeriSign. "We don't know if it's a
hierarchical organisation or a loose confederation of similar groups. But
it's organised.

"They are making millions of dollars a year. They are not greedy — they
take a few dollars here and there and move on to the next victim. And we
think their main guy has connections to the (Russian) Government, and is
protected by them."

The RBN manages networks of phishing sites and Trojan programs, designed to
steal banking passwords. The targets are individuals but the ultimate
victims are the banks, who still compensate their customers for cyber-fraud
losses.

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More:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/from-russia-with-malice-a-criminal-i
sp/2007/07/23/1185043032049.html

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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