Cyber Crime Thrives on Underground Black Market
They say everything can be bought online, and that includes your identity. Exactly how much is your personal information worth on the online black market? The answer might shock you. With organized crime in cyberspace becoming an increasingly widespread problem, surfing the web has become a risky business–and a lucrative one for online crooks. “In [...]
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of infected computers in the United Arab Emirates and the Middle East because users are not fully aware of the measures needed to prevent them, Trend Micro said. “It’s an illegal trillion-dollar industry,” Trend Micro Security Adviser Rik Ferguson told Khaleej Times. “It is even more [...]
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Recently, two major botnets have been brought down through legal channels and arrests. Microsoft used a court order to take out one botnet and Spanish authorities arrested the administrators of the Mariposa botnet. Despite these recent successes, some security researchers have begun to question the how effective taking out a botnet really is, according to [...]
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