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Hackers Track Down Banking Fraud

Posted by jamie on from the white-hatted-detectives dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Noticing some commonalities in the spam flooding their email in-boxes, a small group of hackers set out to track down who was responsible. Along the way they uncovered a trail that led them to an organized gang of criminals halfway around the world, and right back to some of the largest financial institutions in the US, and their customers, that became the gang's prey. See the SecurityFocus story for more details."

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  1. Re:Hackers eh? by Veovis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anonymous Coward on Friday November 14, @07:34PM (#7478363) I can't tell if the "Anonymous Coward" is a feature of the slashdot forum or your actual handle, either way you live up to your name.

  2. Re:Show on this by ruprechtjones · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Muhammed, shoot me an email at brian at liverpops dot net, regarding Discovery stuff. Thanks, sorry about the off-topic communique.

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  3. Re:Hackers eh? by Bobulusman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's a feature of slashdot. Note how the name isn't a hyperlink like the rest of ours.

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