Cyber-terrorists, who are they?
Date: October 19, 2004Source: Computer Crime Research Center
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Sometimes, hackers are considered as modern IT hooligans. Forming groups, hackers become more dangerous and can hack not only a web-site but whole Internet –zones. Organized criminal groups frequently use Internet to commit fraudulent actions in the banking and financial system, and e-commerce. Experts state that hackers commit more complicated attacks not for the fun, but for profit. The most attacked web-sites in this year became web-sites related to e-commerce – 16 % of all attacks, that is more than last year on 400%. This rate shows changing of priorities in hacker community. This could be also indicated by growth in popularity of such kind of Internet fraud as “phishing” – the fraudulent receiving personal data.
Extortion is a popular cyber crime as well. Its new kind consists in black mailing well known persons, companies threatening to register a domain name identical with own name of person or company, and create web-site compromised victims.
Experts forecast rapid growth in cyber crime, because of increase in Internet users.
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