Business As Usual: 1.5 million Stolen Facebook Accounts For Sale
One Cyber-Crook Offers 1.5 million User Accounts.. Sold In Lots Of 1,000
1.5 million stolen Facebook accounts up for grabs (click to read)
| “Researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense have discovered a single hacker selling 1.5 million stolen Facebook account credentials on an underground market. The stolen credentials were put up for sale by a hacker with the handle “kirllos” who is believed to be from Eastern Europe. The hacker is selling batches of 1,000 accounts with 10 Facebook “friends” for $25 and 1,000 accounts with more than 10 “friends” for up to $45. It is estimated that 700,000 accounts have already been purchased. Compromised Facebook accounts can be used by cybercriminals to spread malware, send spam or attempt to defraud a user’s “friends.” – AM” |  |
Kind of glad I never went in for that “social networking”/self-marketing hype. And I sincerely hope, Dear Reader, yours was not one of “krillos'” victimized accounts.
Related:
* Global cybercrime treaty rejected at U.N. (click to read)
“Russia, China and a number of developing countries could not reach agreement with the United States, Canada, the U.K. and European Union.”
Hmmm… wonder why China and the Ex-Soviets don’t want to get onboard..?
Maybe it’s because: “The Internet’s “shadow economy” of cybercrime is worth over $105 billion per year. Online crime is bigger business than the global drugs trade¹. No country, no person, no business and no government is immune from CyberCrime.”
Today’s recommended reading: Your Computer Is Lying To You… The Epidemic Of Rogues
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[addenda: Regular readers may be getting a bit tired of my Internet security-related postings. I do understand. There’s been more of them lately. But, I ask you to ask yourself this question: what does that tell you? (about the Internet, I mean.) I hope you will conclude that you need to be proactive in protecting yourself (and being more paranoid) while online.]
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