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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3526 Posts |
Presto Vivace of slashdot.org writes of a cybercrime server found by security firm "Finjin Inc." that contained a 1.4-GB cache of stolen data, accumulated over a period of less than a month from compromised PCs around the world.
The "crimeserver," as Finjin dubs it, "provided command and control functions for malware attacks in addition to being a drop site for data harvested from compromised computers... The stolen data consisted of 5,388 unique log files including 1,037 from Turkey, 621 from Germany, 571 from the United States, 322 from France, 308 from India and 232 from Britain." Oddly enough, the data was stored in the open, with not even basic auth to protect it. "The server was not secure at all. It indicates that these people that are doing the crime today, they are not security experts, they are not computer science experts. "They are people who are buying the crime toolkits ... software packages that hackers, the smart people, are selling," he told Reuters. "The person that operated this server had no clue on security, he had no clue about how to configure a Web server. He just took a crimeware toolkit and started to use it and in three weeks he managed to have this fortune, this treasure on his server..." Finjin notes in their press release that this huge trove of data gathered over a short period of time indicates that the crimeware problem is far larger than most observers have been assuming...
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
YES
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts |
It's getting bad.
I recently had a credit card compromized and have no idea if it was done online or by another venue.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Albert Camus |
Thomas Kwon Veteran user 333 Posts |
Oh boy..
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3526 Posts |
Quote:
On 2008-05-10 12:57, Steve_Mollett wrote: And, no doubt, your card company won't tell you because it's part of an "ongoing investigation..."
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