[pchelpers] Article:Hacking US is Big Business in Russia

December 26, 2008
Chicago Tribune 

MOSCOW -- Not long ago, the simple, anonymous thrill of exposing chinks
in American software was enough of a payoff for a Russian hacker. 

Today it's cash. And almost all the targets are in the United States and
Europe, where Russia's notorious hackers pilfer online bank accounts,
swipe social security numbers, steal credit card data and peek at e-mail
log-ins and passwords as part of what some estimate to be a $100
billion-a-year global cyber-crime business. 

And when it's not money that drives Russian hackers, it's politics --
with the aim of accessing or disabling the computers, Web sites and
security systems of governments opposed to Russian interests. That may
have been the motive behind a recent attack on Pentagon computers. 

A new generation of Russian hacker is behind America's latest criminal
scourge. Young, intelligent and wealthy enough to zip down Moscow's
boulevards in shiny BMWs, they make their money in cyber-cubbyholes that
police have found impossible to ferret out. 

More here:
http://www.military.com/news/article/hacking-us-is-big-business-in-russia.html
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