- Nov 5, 2011
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Millions US government email addresses in the hands of the cybercrime topic for the millions of us ..
Millions US government email addresses in the hands of the cybercrime : on securityaffairs.co : http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/3439/cyber-crime/millions-of-u-s-government-and-military-email-addresses-available-in-the-hands-of-the-cyber-crime.html
QUOTE:
'Too many people mistakenly believe that attacks on government institutions can only come from hacker groups sponsored by hostile governments, but do not forget that we live in an information age and information is money. Groups of cyber criminals are aware of the huge demand for information about military sectors, for this reason they continuously try to acquire and sell information about each country’s militia and intelligence agencies through several techniques, espionage, phishing, extortions, cyber attacks, hacking of major government contractors.' ..
'The criminal business is offering 2.462.935 U.S government email addresses, and another 2.178.000 U.S military email addresses.
The risks are really serious, this information could be used by hostiles government in cyber attacks and cyber espionage activities in the short term.
We are facing with efficient organization that continuously collect info from various sources trying to sell them using several channels like social network, chat rooms, specific web sites and Internet directories.' ..
Millions US government email addresses in the hands of the cybercrime : on securityaffairs.co : http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/3439/cyber-crime/millions-of-u-s-government-and-military-email-addresses-available-in-the-hands-of-the-cyber-crime.html
QUOTE:
'Too many people mistakenly believe that attacks on government institutions can only come from hacker groups sponsored by hostile governments, but do not forget that we live in an information age and information is money. Groups of cyber criminals are aware of the huge demand for information about military sectors, for this reason they continuously try to acquire and sell information about each country’s militia and intelligence agencies through several techniques, espionage, phishing, extortions, cyber attacks, hacking of major government contractors.' ..
'The criminal business is offering 2.462.935 U.S government email addresses, and another 2.178.000 U.S military email addresses.
The risks are really serious, this information could be used by hostiles government in cyber attacks and cyber espionage activities in the short term.
We are facing with efficient organization that continuously collect info from various sources trying to sell them using several channels like social network, chat rooms, specific web sites and Internet directories.' ..
