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Cybercrooks Surpassed Old School Bankrobbers In '09
krebsonsecurity writes "Organized cyber-criminal gangs stole $25 million in the 3rd quarter alone last year, by pilfering the online bank accounts of small to midsized businesses, the FDIC reported last week. In contrast, traditional bank robbers hauled just $9.4 million in 1,184 bank robberies during that same period, according to an analysis of FBI bank crime statistics by krebsonsecurity.com. From that story: 'The federal government sure publishes a lot more information about physical bank robberies than it makes available about online stick-ups. Indeed, the FBI's bank crime stats are extraordinarily detailed. For example, they can tell you that in the 3rd quarter of last year, bank robbers were more likely to hold up their local branch between the hours of 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. on a Wednesday than at any other time or day of the week; they can tell you the number of tear gas and dye packs taken with the loot, the number of security cameras activated, the number of food stamps taken, even what percentage of suspected perpetrators had illegal drug habits at the time of the robberies. About the only thing the stats don't tell you is what brand of jeans the perpetrators were wearing and whether the getaway car had cool vanity plates. What do we get about e-crime statistics from the federal government? One guy from the FDIC giving a speech at the RSA conference."
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Since only 3% of all dollars exist as paper money you knew this one was coming. If thieves only robbed the paper money they would be limiting their money pool they steal from.
How long until Comp Sci majors are considered more at-risk to be future criminals than the football team?
I wonder how many hostages have been injured/shot in a cyber stickup gone bad?
Perhaps that might explain their focusing more on physical bank robberies? I mean cmon.. the banks have insurance to cover the actual money lost, don't they?
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When I looked at the numbers, all I could think of was "that wouldn't even come up to a good bonus at Goldman Sachs".
Which ones are the bank robbers again?
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Compared to the GDP of the US in 2009 ($14.26T) that's what, like 0.0007% ? *
*Disclamer: that's internet math, some of the logic could have been stolen/pilfered.
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They're real cagey about how much is pilfered by bank employees. That's where most of the loss comes from.
"Cyber-Crime" has the majority of the benefits of a traditional robbery without many of the downfalls. For those of you who don't know, ATM skimming in the US is even more prevalent and more harmful, and the majority of e-crime originates in OCONUS. The thing is, it is easy to get bank and CC info in the dark underbellies of the internet, the hard part is turning that info into money you can use. That's why large bot-net operators skim large amounts of data, and organize by "value" for example a black card will sell for 150+ $. Usually they try to sell in bulk, to someone else, who then hires a cashier, or someone who can basically "launder" the money back (with various methods, E-gold, offshore gambling, etc), often these cashiers charge over 50 points or more, because that is where the real danger is. The point is, even if you start somehow nabbing or stopping the cashiers, you still have the botnet ops and the real person making the money in the background. Again, most of this being from countries like Russia (stereotypes do exist for a reason sometimes). Want to stop cybercrime? Start making financial institutions at least attempt at having security protocols in place that can stop this sort of thing, and do something to educate and simplify secure computing for the consumer.
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God I wish people would learn how to write in English. When I first read "Cybercrooks Surpassed Old School Bankrobbers In '09" I was confused because I read the meaning that is actually written instead of the intended meaning. This sentence says that cybercrooks surpassed elderly robbers of school banks. It should read "old-school bankrobbers".
$25 million, roughly 100 million all year. Are you kidding? The financial industry extorted hundreds of billions of dollars from the tax payer in 2009. If this is the cybercrime menace we're supposed to be afraid of, I'm not. I'm much more worried about legalized theft by men in suits.
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My guess is that the government doesn't publish the statistics because
No, it's an institutional bias at the FBI that dates back to J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports hugely underestimate white collar crime. Violent crime is tallied based on police reports, regardless of whether anyone is arrested. White collar crime is tallied based on arrests. Scams with large numbers of victims who didn't lose much each don't get tallied at all.
In dollar volume, white collar fraud dwarfs all other categories. Losses from the Madoff scam, or the Enron scam, were each greater than an entire century or so of physical bank robberies.
Robbery is a dying industry, anyway. Breaking into houses is almost obsolete. What's worth stealing? Nobody has silver any more. Used consumer electronics has zero to negative value. Any TV worth stealing is too big to lift. Used furniture is nearly worthless. Few people keep much cash around. Auto theft is at a 20-year low - between OnStar and LoJack, stealing cars as a career doesn't work for long.
I thought that organized crime had moved to cyber-robbing a long time ago so is this really news ? I am just wondering...
The 9.4 millions robbed in a conventional way are probably due to poor, "un-organized" people ;-))
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When you say cybercrooks, do you include financial institutions that
1. Practice coputer-managed microtrading using the advantage of their high-availability data streams, proprietary software and huge capital (other people's money) to squeeze profit from the market without contributing anything positive to anybody or anything?
2. Create financial instruments and products with the only purpose to use legal loopholes for profit?
3. Use usury to create perpetual profit from everyone who borrows other perople's money from them, practically causing enslavement?
Just wondering.
It only took 1 Brazilian heist to almost topple these 1100+.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/07/sao-paulo-tunnel-thieves_n_382415.html
I've heard that bank robbers are typically disgruntled customers (either because of their money situation or their bank relationship), therefore we have a group of traditional robbers stealing from banks that don't have money thanks to the bail-out economy. Remember, when robbers want to case the place they visit days ahead to study the layout and camera locations, and when they do the stealing, sometimes they bring in their legitimate checkbooks as a disguise. Cyber-criminals on the other hand are non-bias; they steal from any sucker who accidentally gives them their private information; the more desperate people get, the more they'll fall into the traps.
There were a couple of posts along the lines of "sure Goldman-Sachs etc. robbed us but at least they didn't kill anyone".Follow this line of reasoning:
The banksters destroyed the global economy.
Millions that were getting by were thrown into poverty.
Millions that were in poverty were thrown into starvation.
Since the unemployment rate in the developed nations increased, gov't and private relief donations dropped.
This reduced the amount of emergency relief available, causing more to die.
Conclusion: the banksters that created this mess are guilty of manslaughter on a massive scale.
BTW, "Bankster" is used on some discussion boards as a cross between banker and gangster.
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But I thought the DMCA already outlawed password cracking...
Oh, I see what you did there.
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The real crooks extorted $24 trillion from a sovereign nation by threatening elected officials with martial law.
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I suspect the banks do have insurance that covers the loss during a robbery. I also suspect that the small to mid-size businesses don't have insurance that covers someone logging in and emptying their bank accounts, which can sink a small company.
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