[HIB]Understanding the Russian Hacker Underground

Viruses, worms, fake AV programs - they are the bane of every network administrator's life, and they can cost companies dearly in terms of network downtime, reduced productivity, wasted IT staff hours and even lost data.But where does all this malware come from, who is responsible for it, and what is the motivation for creating this malicious code in the first place? These are questions that two Russian security experts have spent six months trying to answer. Fyodor Yarochkin and "The Grugq" spent six months monitoring dozens of underground Russian language hacker Web forums where malware, scams and other criminal activities are openly discussed. The sites in question are protected by nothing more than the language barrier and the use of fenya -- Russian prison slang; anglonims -- English words that have been Russianized , like "partnerka ;" and other obscure jargon. They presented their findings at the Hack In The Box security conference in Amsterdam last month.

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