I'd be willing to fork up the $150 to see if they could hack into my own gmail account. Seems like cheap penetration testing. Pointing them toward myself should be legal as well. So who do I pay? In fact Google should be paying them to hack honeypotted accounts and see what they try.
The Russian underground economy has democratized cybercrime
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Re: The Russian underground economy has democratized cybercrime
#22It has always fascinated me how history, individuals, geography and natural resources influenced people, their mentality in various world regions. While Russia is rich for natural resources (diamonds, gas, oil), just a few people profit from them. Next tear of wealthy individuals mostly profit from serving those who profit from natural resources… Natural resources imply that value is already created. You dont have to…
Re: The Russian underground economy has democratized cybercrime
#23It has always fascinated me how history, individuals, geography and natural resources influenced people, their mentality in various world regions. While Russia is rich for natural resources (diamonds, gas, oil), just a few people profit from them. Next tear of wealthy individuals mostly profit from serving those who profit from natural resources… Natural resources imply that value is already created. You dont have to…
Assuming you include Russian Jews, you get a lot of successful Russians doing tech stuff in the world -- just in other countries than Russia. Israel, the US, etc. have Russian Jewish populations who are incredibly successful in tech.
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I'd love to learn about examples of particular socio-economic reasons in particular countries for cybercrime being more mature than IT business.
Hmm, did I understand correctly that you think that in Russia cybercrime is more mature than IT business?
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#25I'd be willing to fork up the $150 to see if they could hack into my own gmail account. Seems like cheap penetration testing. Pointing them toward myself should be legal as well. So who do I pay? In fact Google should be paying them to hack honeypotted accounts and see what they try.
That's a good point, why are these guys doing this stuff illegally for pennies when there are probably plenty of companies out there who would pay them decent money for a proper pen test.
Remember the guy whose macbook, ipad and iphone got wiped through iCloud ?
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Any more information to this story? Do you know how they did it?
I'm sorry but I don't know how did he do it. I was wondered when I saw that I can't login in to my gmail account. I thought that it's impossible someone to hack my gmail account, because Google is a big company they should have some good codes there. But it's possible. In that day my friend sent my new password per sms my and said that it was a joke. if you want to hire someone, go to free-lance.ru, in left menu sele…
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#27It has always fascinated me how history, individuals, geography and natural resources influenced people, their mentality in various world regions. While Russia is rich for natural resources (diamonds, gas, oil), just a few people profit from them. Next tear of wealthy individuals mostly profit from serving those who profit from natural resources… Natural resources imply that value is already created. You dont have to…
The only seeming exception I can think of is Norway, which has a highly unusual massive government savings program to deal with its oil wealth, and then only discovered that wealth fairly recently.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry but I don't know how did he do it. I was wondered when I saw that I can't login in to my gmail account. I thought that it's impossible someone to hack my gmail account, because Google is a big company they should have some good codes there. But it's possible. In that day my friend sent my new password per sms my and said that it was a joke. if you want to hire someone, go to free-lance.ru, in left menu sele…
Question is, will they divulge the method they used to hack your site, and if so, can you trust them to tell you everything?
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#29This isn't just a "Russian" thing.
So, we take you at face value, with no citations or other authority? What if you're one of the Russian cybercriminals? Or that hacker that the Georgian CERT unmasked? So, +1 for vaguely menacing vagueness.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry but I don't know how did he do it. I was wondered when I saw that I can't login in to my gmail account. I thought that it's impossible someone to hack my gmail account, because Google is a big company they should have some good codes there. But it's possible. In that day my friend sent my new password per sms my and said that it was a joke. if you want to hire someone, go to free-lance.ru, in left menu sele…
Question is, will they divulge the method they used to hack your site, and if so, can you trust them to tell you everything?