Spyware Warrior

datababe · Last edited by datababe on Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:09 pm; edited 1 time in total

Are they adding bank robbery to their resume? Evidently they've not been simply sitting around playing WoW during this somewhat hiatus.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1567020/russian-hackers-rob-us-banks

Citigroup says everything is business as usual:

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/enterprise/russian-hackers-stole-from-us-banks-20091223-ldf9.html

Granted we all know what happens when remarks get taken out of context (Mr. Eric Schmidt, would you care to comment...?), but still, this:

Chao284 · Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:50 am Post subject:

Sounds like they are also testing new exploits if that is what else they are doing, because I am sure they are crashing computers just to try to find another security hole they can break in and Hijack it.

sotet · Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:33 pm Post subject:

The RBN or whatever you want to call the criminal enterprise is quite large and at this point has probably broken off into different organisations or "spamgangs." I do not know much about its interworkings by any means, but there are researchers out there whose blogs can tell you much more. Examples: RBN Exploit or Sophos.