Koobface and Eva Pharmacy

Red Dwarf · **Joined:** Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:01 am **Posts:** 9227

Ref: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/26/koobface_carder_pharma_spam_tieup/

Koobface worm-flinging gangster linked to pharma spam ops
Login-slurping worm band broke up, moved onto 'solo projects' – infosec bod
By John Leyden, 26th August 2013

This is a two page article, with contributions from multiple authors. Recommended reading.

spamislame · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 9:18 am **Posts:** 5022

That is interesting. Too bad that none of it has ever - not in 7 years and counting - resulted in any legal action whatsoever.

SiL

Red Dwarf · **Joined:** Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:01 am **Posts:** 9227

Good point, and this may help explain why

http://newsle.com/article/0/89497742/

Quote:

FEATURE-Ex-Soviet hackers play outsized role in cyber crime world
Thu Aug 22, 2013
* Cyber crime costs Western firms billions of dollars a year

Quote:

As long as these hackers target victims abroad, experts say, the Russian authorities are willing to sit back and let them develop tools to burrow into computer vulnerabilities, which they can in turn use for their own cyber espionage.

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