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Old 02-22-2008, 10:07 AM
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Lightbulb 17 arrested in Canadian hacking bust

Quebec provincial police conducted raids on Wednesday, breaking up a hacking ring that police say is responsible for an estimated CDN$45 million ($44.3 million) in damage to computer systems.
The hackers installed remote-controlled "botnet" software on victims' computers in order to run phishing and spamming operations...

If these guys are so smart why don't they get real jobs?

I've been watching these guys or another Canadian hacking group for the last several months. One of the techniques they use is a cross-site scripting method that inserts a script from one of several different sites located in Russia.
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Last edited by Tech Manager : 02-22-2008 at 10:20 AM. Reason: clarification
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