Return of the Web Mob · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday April 10, 2006 @03:40AM from the cement-shoes-for-everyone dept.

Parore writes "eWeek is running a story about the return of the web mob, highlighting all the similiarities between the online attacks and the real-world mafia. From the article: "Black hat hackers have set up e-commerce sites offering private exploits capable of evading anti-virus scanners. An e-mail advertisement intercepted by researchers contained an offer to infect computers for use in botnets at $25 per 10,000 hijacked PCs. Skilled hackers in Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America are selling zero-day exploits on Internet forums where moderators even test the validity of the code against anti-virus software."

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A first post... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-10 03:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

...you can't refuse!
Re:Analogy? by towsonu2003 · 2006-04-10 04:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

ok, seriously, how is this troll? may be redundant ok, or overrated... but troll? wow: some mod needs his/her coffee injection...