Description
Hacking organisation
Russian Business Network
IT Security
Class Assignment 3rd April 2011
What is it?
? ? ? ? ? ? µThe baddest of the bad¶ Based in St. Petersburg; Russia Multi-faceted cybercrime organization Hosting of illegal and dubious businesses Provides method for organized cyber crime hiring its services to criminals.
About
? By Flyman - 24-year-old in 2004 ? Nephew of a powerful and well-connected Russian politician ? Average profit of $150 Million per year. ? Half of the world's phishing attacks traced back to RBN servers. ? Initiated - masquerading as internet service provider
for spam, malware, phishing and child pornography.
? Alleged to have relocated to China.
Business Line
? Specialization- web hosting services, internet access ? Bulletproof hosting ? PC hijacking and personal identity theft
fake anti-spyware and anti-malware MPack - infects PCs with keylogging software Malware Spammer Phishing Cybercrime hosting networks
USP - Untraceable
? ? ? ? ? Not a registered company Domains registered to anonymous addresses. Owners are known only by nicknames. Does not advertise Trades only in untraceable electronic transactions
Unstoppable
? Business made an active stand against RBN ? RBN reciprocated with Denial of service attacks (DoS attack) on their website. ? During 2008 Georgia mentioned something about breaking away from Russia and governing themselves. That did not sit to well with the RBN. ? RBN hacked the website of the Georgian government and replaced the photos of the president with photos in similar poses as Hitler.
Thank you
? ? ? ? ? ? ? Devika Mathur Madhur Shah Helga Cardoza Ragini Rastogi Richa Shreshtha Saloni Gagrani Sumit Kothari
doc_117270005.pptx
Hacking organisation
Russian Business Network
IT Security
Class Assignment 3rd April 2011
What is it?
? ? ? ? ? ? µThe baddest of the bad¶ Based in St. Petersburg; Russia Multi-faceted cybercrime organization Hosting of illegal and dubious businesses Provides method for organized cyber crime hiring its services to criminals.
About
? By Flyman - 24-year-old in 2004 ? Nephew of a powerful and well-connected Russian politician ? Average profit of $150 Million per year. ? Half of the world's phishing attacks traced back to RBN servers. ? Initiated - masquerading as internet service provider
for spam, malware, phishing and child pornography.
? Alleged to have relocated to China.
Business Line
? Specialization- web hosting services, internet access ? Bulletproof hosting ? PC hijacking and personal identity theft
fake anti-spyware and anti-malware MPack - infects PCs with keylogging software Malware Spammer Phishing Cybercrime hosting networks
USP - Untraceable
? ? ? ? ? Not a registered company Domains registered to anonymous addresses. Owners are known only by nicknames. Does not advertise Trades only in untraceable electronic transactions
Unstoppable
? Business made an active stand against RBN ? RBN reciprocated with Denial of service attacks (DoS attack) on their website. ? During 2008 Georgia mentioned something about breaking away from Russia and governing themselves. That did not sit to well with the RBN. ? RBN hacked the website of the Georgian government and replaced the photos of the president with photos in similar poses as Hitler.
Thank you
? ? ? ? ? ? ? Devika Mathur Madhur Shah Helga Cardoza Ragini Rastogi Richa Shreshtha Saloni Gagrani Sumit Kothari
doc_117270005.pptx