A $100 Billion per year cyber crime business in Russia. Cyber-crime, by some estimates, has outpaced the amount of illicit cash raked in by global
drug trafficking. Hackers from Russia and China are among the chief culprits, and the threat they pose now extends far beyond spam, identity theft and
bank heists.
Russian and Chinese hackers are on the move.
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Russian hackers target U.S., Europe for profit and politics
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MOSCOW — Not long ago, the simple, anonymous thrill of exposing chinks in American software was enough of a payoff for a Russian hacker.(visit the link for the full news article)
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.
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