TITLE: Organized fraud: Internet hackers conduct coordinated hacking attempts

DATE: 16 Oct 2003

SOURCE: SearchSecurity.com

URL: http://searchsecurity.techtarg...

Editor's Summary: In this presentation from Security Decisions 2003, John Frazzini, vice president of Intelligence Operations at iDEFENSE, explores electronic crime as a major global threat. Internet fraud, coordinated hacking attempts and extortion schemes are rampant, backed by a worldwide network of criminal organizations, ad hoc affiliations and individual hackers. Geopolitical hotbeds of activity include the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, which is seeing the creation of a virtual stolen credit card ("kreditki") industry; in Latin America, Brazil is an emerging force.
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