Criminal hacker organizations are operating with increasing corporate-like efficiency and specialization, according to Steven Chabinsky, deputy assistant director in the FBI's cyber division.
At FOSE, a government IT trade show held in Washington last month, Chabinsky described the following specialized roles in cybercrime organizations: • *Coders,* who write the exploits and malware. • *Distributors,* who trade and sell stolen data. • *Tech experts,* who maintain the criminal enterprise's IT infrastructure. • *Hackers,* who search for and exploit vulnerabilities in applications, systems and networks. • *Fraudsters,* who woo potential victims with social engineering schemes like phishing and spam. • *Hosted system providers,* who offer illicit content servers. • *Cashiers,* who control drop accounts and provide names and accounts to other criminals for a fee. • *Money mules,* who complete wire transfers between bank accounts. • *Tellers,* who transfer and launder illicit earnings through digital currency services. • *Organization leaders,* who assemble the team and choose the targets. *This story was originally published in *Computerworld*'s print edition. *Regards Sandeep Thakur -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nforceit" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nforceit?hl=en-GB.
