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Web Fraud 2.0 — Point-and-Click Cracking Tools
An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post's Security Fix blog is running a fascinating series that peers inside some of the Web-based services cyber crooks are using to ply their trade: from masking their identity, to defeating CAPTCHAs, to creating counterfeit documents and validating stolen credit and debit cards. Everyone familiar with this space hears about these kinds of tools and services all the time in the abstract, but the Post blog includes screen shots and background details on the popularity of the services and how each one is helping to bring cyber crime that much closer to the realm of even the most newbie scam artists." Many of these tools require a working knowledge of Russian. Wouldn't surprise me to learn that Chinese-language tools exist too.
Your comment just proves how clueless you are about the spam situation in China.
China is, and has been for several years, a bastion of "bulletproof" hosting. Since you're so clueless about spam, I probably have to explain bulletproof hosting. Bulletproof hosting is a contract with a hosting provider and/or ISP with IP space to burn that doesn't care what you do with that hosting/IP space so long as you pay your bills.
China is also a haven of phishing sites, largely for the same reason and courtesy of a few rogue registrars operating in China.
There's nothing racist about criticizing China for its conduct. What next? You'll be telling us it's racist to criticize Nigeria for being the source of most of the world's 419 spam?
Silly me. I hadn't heard that scammers, spammers, and those who give them shelter constituted a race.
"Chinese language tools" implies they are Chinese who use it (i.e the Chinese RACE), what part of that can't you understand as being racist? It's already been shown earlier that the top spammers aren't from China so why the quip about the Chinese language tools? Yes you are silly and dare I use your own words "clueless' if you try to justify that blatantly racist statement.
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