The new breed of cyber-criminals.
The new breed of cyber-criminals.
Lately the domineer of cyber-criminals is one of being untouchable. 'Anonymous' is telling the targeted companies that they are coming and have even given specific dates of which they have to meet their demands or they will shut them down and or expose their data. Time and time again 'Anonymous' would tell Sony “we are coming” and then sure enough they would do it. Sony executives admitted that they were helpless to the attacks and really had no way to defend themselves other than shutting down the services under attack.
The Koobface gang is a small cyber-gang believed to be responsible for spreading a notorious computer worm on Facebook and various other social networks. They pocketed millions from online schemes and are hiding in plain sight in St. Petersburg, Russia. The gang consists of five members that live seemingly regular lives. Recently they have been seen on luxury vacations in places like Monte Carlo, Bali and Turkey. One of the members has even gone as far as posting the locations of the gangs offices by checking in on Foursquare, a location based social network and posting the news on Twitter. They have even posted photos on these social networks some of the members working on their MACs in rooms that look like offices used by tech start-ups.
With such arrogance, the sky truly is the limit for the types of crimes they are willing to commit. It seems way too easy to be a cyber-criminal today.