Teenage hackers becoming a real threat
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in cybercrime, financial, hacking, internet on
According to security experts, teenage hacking is becoming a real threat when it comes to cyber crime.
Professionals have indicated that forums such as that of Dark Market which was taken down recently, are starting to be populated by teenagers who are looking to swap credit card data as well as the hacking and phishing kits which is used to collect it.
As these teenagers are not as well trained as professionals who may well do this for a living, they are more likely to get caught as well as pick up a criminal record, which will really hurt them if further down the line, they want to have a career in IT.
The first steps are simply to look for cracks and exploits for computer games, for example to run computer games which they haven’t paid for. Although many kids do this, it is nevertheless illegal.
Then it is likely they’ll graduate to more serious crime, such as swapping programs and malicious data, and further on targeting social networking sites with exploits and virus code.
IT PRO talked to Billy Hoffman at RSA Europe, who works in
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