Summary
ACCORDING to VeriSign, one of the world's largest Internet security companies, RBN, an Internet company based in Russia's second city, St. Petersburg, is "the baddest of the bad." In a report seen by The Economist, VeriSign's investigators uncover an extraordinary story of blatant cybercrime that implies high-level political backing.
When VeriSign managed to hack into the RBN computer running the scam, it found accumulated data representing 30,000 such infections. "Every major trojan in the last year links to RBN," says a VeriSign sleuth.What can be done? VeriSign has tracked down the physical location of RBN's servers. But western law enforcement officers have so far tried in vain to get their Russian counterparts to pursue the investigation vigorously. "RBN feel they are strongly politically protected. They pay a huge amount of people. They know they are being watched. They cover their tracks," says VeriSign.See the full content of this document
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Russian Internet Company Criminal
Report implies RBN has political backing
The EconomistACCORDING to VeriSign, one of the world's largest Internet security companies, RBN, an Internet company based in Russia's second city, St. P...See the full content of this document
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