Software piracy puts a price data theft and other online operations unholy
Hack a Facebook account for less than $ 100, block a website for values ranging from US $ 15 to US $ 450 and get the stolen credit card by just a few data are some of the services “unholy” hovering on the market Computer black, piracy of the twentieth century, which replaced the swords by the mouse.
The unique list was compiled by computer security company Trend Micro, based in the Philippines, from data obtained by all the world.
But not all. For another $ s14 it is possible to order the mass mailing of spam to a thousand users. If they are to increase tenfold the number of victims, the price for spam is reduced: less than 50 cents per attacked email. Burst or crack an encrypted file only costs a few dollars and 40.
Hackers and black market “are increasingly specialized,” said the Filipino company headquarters director of the special unit analyzes new threats, Ryan Flores.
The Russian market, for example, has focused on viruses that use payment services system (pay per install or PPI, in English), software receives money from an advertiser to include in its discharge their brand ads. Of course they say ad says malicious software, malware.
The Russians also stand out in traffic management systems, innocent-looking websites that redirect to other malicious viruses and poisoned.
For instance, the Google search engine and pulled out of circulation more of these pages, all with the .ru extension.
In China, however, there are many denial of service attacks, which involve saturating a network or website with many access requests that ultimately lead inaccessible to users in good faith.
In one of the most striking cases in recent years, however, accused Russia. It happened in 2007, when the main institutions of Estonia received this type of attacks that succeeded in blocking the activity of the Baltic country.
Latin America, and especially Brazil, prefer tools aimed at users, like social networks and the creation software for spam via SMS, but are also havens for training future criminals network.
Western Europe, especially their health systems, is a scapegoat for attacks seeking massive data theft.
“We are seeing increasing interest theft of valuable data. Most of the attacks and are aimed at the files “specifies Ryan Flores.
The data, which also include the prices of the illegal market of documentation and counterfeit coins were compiled at the headquarters of the company Trend Micro in Pasig (Metropolitan Manila) from information gathered by its international network of black market watchers computer.
The company shares data with Interpol to prosecute cybercrime and collaborates with police and other companies competing entity.
Simultaneously, in his office in Moscow, Eugene Kaspersky, owner of the largest antivirus company in Europe that bears his name, is not optimistic about the past movements in the network, “yet we have found the virus worst imaginable, but we hope nightmarish attacks against critical infrastructure,” explains the Russian engineer, trained as a cryptographer in the army, he began hunting in 1989 when virus They transmitted through floppy disks that do not even exist. Kaspersky is not only concerned with criminal groups, activists or thieves used malware, but by a new generation of attacks that physical assets put in check.
It is estimated that by the end of this year, 5,000 million things (phones, cars, clocks, factories) will be connected to the internet and will, therefore, vulnerable.
The first serious warning that something had changed in the world of virus called Stuxnet a “worm” discovered in 2010 after that would cause havoc on Iran’s nuclear centrifuges. Its sophistication indicated that it was a -program malware maliciously created by a State but from the technical point of view, offered a unique feature. It was the first virus that could impact on the physical world. In a joint investigation with the UN, Kaspersky Lab discovered another similar virus, Flame.
In both cases involved cyber weapons both the press and security companies accused the US and Israel, with an objective clearly military. Circulation and copies of these technologies is a latent threat. Cyberterrorism
VALUES PRODUCTS
– The credit card trades US or Europe between US $ 10 and $ 50.
– The driver’s license for USA you can get for $ 190.
– Shares of US citizenship from $ 1,000.
– Passports Fake Sites costing up to $ 5,000.
– forged identity documents may be obtained from the $ s1.300 up to $ 1,500.
– fake dollar bills are also requested by values ranging in . a quarter of the nominal value from 2,500
– Data accounts to pay between 10 and $ 150
No comments:
Post a Comment