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Hackers work for the Mob

by on21 April 2009

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Stealing more data


Verizon
thinks that it has found proof that most hackers work for the mob.

In its 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), Verizon looked at 90 data breach cases that exposed a 285 million records. It pointed out that this figure is far greater than the 230 million records recorded as breached in the five years combined from 2004 to 2008. But in breaches that resulted in compromised records being used in a crime. Verizon Business found that organised crime almost always behind the raids.

Apparently the mobsters are finding that the price of credit card details on the black market has fallen so they have to get a lot of details to make up for the shortfall in profits. The mob is now more interested in trying to get PIN numbers and are targeting financial firms to steal PINs and together with associated credit and debit accounts. More than 93 per cent of hacks are against financial firms.

Most data breaches originate from external threats, with Internet hacking being involved in 94 per cent of breached records. Malware was involved in over one-third of the cases investigated and contributed to nine out of 10 of all records breached. The mobsters weapons of choice is the SQL injection attack which was seen in  79 per cent  of cases.
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