http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/organized_crime_embraces_net/
“The rise of the Malware Mafia”
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
Published Friday 11th April 2008 21:19 GMT
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Cyber crime is no longer the province of teenage hackers holed up in their parents’ basement, but rather an enterprise that’s been co-opted into the most hardened and powerful organized crime families. He cataloged some of the better-known examples including:
Dmitry Golubov, a Ukrainian alleged to be an original member of Carderplanet, an online clearinghouse for people engaged in the theft of credit and debit card information. He was arrested in 2006, but his case languished after two members of the Ukrainian parliament intervened on his behalf. He recently founded the Internet Party of Ukraine.
Younis Tsouli, who last year was convicted by UK authorities for inciting acts of terrorism. Tsouli frequently distributed propaganda videos for Al-Qaeda by hosting them on computers he had hijacked, Alperovich said. He frequently engaged in online credit card theft as a means to support his activities.
Maxim Yamstremsky, who was arrested last year for allegedly selling large amounts of credit card numbers that were stolen from the network of US retailing giant TJX. He was selling card data in batches of 10,000, and was charging $20 to $100 per card.”
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66042
FROM JOSEPH FARAH’S G2 BULLETIN
“U.S. threatened by al-Qaida propaganda
War on terror can’t be won on battlefield alone”
Posted: June 03, 2008
11:07 pm Eastern
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Still, al-Qaida has been able to “inspire” its followers to carry out attacks in the Western World. London has reeled from jihadist-inspired attacks in two separate summers, and other attacks have been thwarted before they came to fruition. The influence of the Internet training became apparent to the world with the arrest and trial of Younis Tsouli, the infamous Irhabi 007.”