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Criminals Target Tech Students With Job Offers
An anonymous reader writes "BBC News is running a story on criminal gangs targeting tech students. Some of these outfits offer to pay for an education in exchange for the student's employment on graduation in criminal hacking activities." From the article: " As the number of criminal gangs looking to move into cyber crime expanded, it got harder to recruit skilled hackers, said Mr Day. This has led criminals to target university students all around the world. 'Some students are being sponsored through their IT degree,' said Mr Day. Once qualified, the graduates go to work for the criminal gangs. As well as the direct route of targeting students, some organised crime gangs were trading on the glamour surrounding the 'hacker' label to help them recruit impressionable youngsters..."
A close friend of mine and I were offered "work" for a criminal organization years ago when we were fresh out of high school (we developed quite a rep, did some stupid things like send all the account usernames and passwords for the district to the main laser in the library. Nobody knew who did it till a friend ratted us out. That's another story though.)
The offer was nice, new machines and $10,000 each for a weeks work attacking ADT's system so they could stage a b&e spree.
Scared the crap out of me, I had friends that ran with those people, one was a runner who shortly there after went missing after he embezzled. I left the city (for other reasons) no idea what happened to Jamie...
There are other things to consider other than renumeration, like physical safety.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein