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2011-04-15 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Fred 2011-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 C'mon, give us a hint. What flavor of botnet? Russian? Chinese? Iranian? Venezuelan? Equadorian?

Posted by mojo 2011-04-15 15:49|| 2011-04-15 15:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Russian

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-15 16:08|| 2011-04-15 16:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Russian Coreflood Gang targets online bank accounts
Call them the Coreflood Gang. A ring of cyber bank robbers from southern Russia has quietly perfected a way to get a beachhead inside company networks.

Number of data-stealing infections:
County school district: 31,425
Hotel chain: 14,093
U.S. health care company: 6,744
U.S. university hospital: 4,710
Australian university: 1,362
U.K. university: 1,310
U.S. university: 974
Payday loan company: 685
Hospital: 405
Health care system: 321

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-15 16:13|| 2011-04-15 16:13|| Front Page Top

#4 BTW, the article I linked was from 2008. The article ends with:
After having two hub servers shut down by the tech security community in May, the Coreflood Gang rented two new hubs and picked up where they left off. Today, they continue operations unimpeded, says Stewart.

Companies infiltrated by the Coreflood Gang need to rethink how they do network security. Employees surfing the Internet on work PCs ought to take pause. "If you don't understand the threats that are out there, then you probably should not be banking online," Stewart says.

Can't say the computer security community wasn't warned.

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-15 16:21|| 2011-04-15 16:21|| Front Page Top

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