Are criminal to criminal (C2C) networks making cyber crime too easy?
With the FBI’s announcement of Operation Bot Roast II detailing the arrests of several bot-herders infecting computer systems on an International basis, it’s become apparent that a lot of crime is going on with the click of a mouse. One of the more amazing revelations to come forward from Operation Bot Roast II was that a teenager was described in the media as a “cyber crime kingpin.” Most of the people arrested were under 30. This led me to wonder if our young people are getting smarter, or cyber crime is getting a lot easier to commit? I ran into an article from ZDNet entitled, “The new battleground in cyber crime.” It covered a lot of things, I already knew, but perhaps it hits on the reason cyber crime is growing at an explosive rate. From the article written by Yuval Ben-Itzhak (originally published on News.com): In an age where “data equals money,” fortune has replaced fame as hackers’ key motivation. Criminals are willing to pay top dollar for personal, financial, and corporate
