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How Russia Became a Malware Hornet's Nest
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 21:05:00 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via SearchSecurity news. [snip] That Russia is a hornet's nest of malicious cyber activity is nothing new. The question for some in the information security community is why people from that part of the world are so determined to earn a living writing attack code. A dismal economy and lax law enforcement is fueling the problem, say two well-known security researchers. It has helped nudge Russian computer programmers into an underground market where easy money can be made creating programs used to steal credit card and Social Security numbers. "[Russian hackers] don't see themselves as doing anything criminal," Kaspersky Labs CEO Eugene Kaspersky said during an interview at his company's U.S. facility in Woburn, Mass., last week. He explained that many Russian programmers compare themselves to weapons manufacturers -- they build the technology but are not the ones using it. In other words, they're not responsible if someone else is pulling the trigger. Meanwhile, Kaspersky said, the Russian economy is still shaky enough that people are looking for ways to make a steady living, and building malware for online gangsters is one way to do it. [snip] More: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1275 987,00.html Somehow, I don't think this is the last we hear on this topic. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHC+z4q1pz9mNUZTMRAgiLAJ0YiKY10EP2bJTgJZyANFeqzTFcLACgy4Bi l1H1iJJKO2Wh4A82I1TUeaA= =31jZ -----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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