We have sure heard a lot about hackers these days and now they have found a new way to make money and to make you pay. Hacking used to be for fun and again people would play, but not anymore says the cyber crime and FBI task force leader Mr. Day. The new technique being used is that the hackers will infect your computer with a virus, which shuts down certain parts of your computer system rendering your system useless. Then they contact you and tell you if you pay them and send money to a certain place and wire the money into a certain account, they will unlock your computer system so you can use it. This is a modern day hackers method of operation and I suppose it would be similar to the extortion tactics of the mob. Remember the mafia used to charge business owners for protection. If the business owner asked protection from what the mafia would simply say from us. It makes sense that modern day hackers would wish to get paid for their hacking skills and of course they have turned from the fun to criminal intent. It is no longer about snooping or the thrill of sneaking into a computer system. This is purely about extortion techniques and making money and having lots of money wired into their accounts and then as quickly as they set them up they disappear with the money. It should not surprise anybody that it has come to this and the FBI says they are hot on their trail, but in reality they are not so easy to catch. Please consider all this in 2006. |
