Tag Archives: cybercrime

How criminals make money from compromised websites

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about a trend of websites being compromised because the webmaster’s computer had a Trojan that was stealing FTP credentials for the site. The folks at Finjan recently released a report detailing the operations of … Continue reading

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Bad Guys Get Caught

Allysa Myers at McAfee “blogged about”:http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2008/05/21/more-crimeware-arrests/ this “FBI press release”:http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/nh051908.htm announcing criminal charges against 38 alleged baddies from the U.S. and overseas. bq. According to the indictment, the Romania-based members of the enterprise obtained thousands of credit and debit card … Continue reading

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