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 Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:45 am Post subject: Article about the RBN |
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/from-russia-with-malice-a-criminal-isp/2007/07/23/1185043032049.html
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From Russia with malice: criminals trawl the world
Nick Miller
July 24, 2007
Page 1 of 2 | Single page
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." |
There's a lot more -- it's a 2 page article.
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tripkill201
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Now that's just...shady if the government is protecting a hacker. I mean, really shady.
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