Inside Look At Eastern European Vs. East Asian Hackers

wiredmikey writes with a snippet from Security Week: "Much of the talk about cybercrime remains focused on East Asia. But according to a new report, it is hackers in Eastern Europe that have actually emerged as more sophisticated. In a report entitled 'Peter the Great vs. Sun Tzu' ... compared hackers from the two regions. His conclusion — the Eastern Europeans are far more insidious and strategic. While East Asian groups tend to work for other organizations interested in their skills, hackers from Eastern Europe generally operate in small, independent units, and are focused on profit. Their infrastructure tends to be developed by them specifically for their own use in attacks. 'They [Eastern European groups] tend to want to be in control of their entire infrastructure and will routinely set up their own servers for use in attacks, develop their own DNS servers to route traffic and create sophisticated traffic directional systems used in their attacks,' according to the report. 'If they do go outside, they will carefully select bulletproof hosts to support their infrastructure. It is their hallmark to maintain control of the whole stack similar to the business models pioneered by Apple.'"

Re:Makes sense to me

[phil_aychio]

Sounds about right...I haven't been attacked by any Europeans (that I know of) (yet), but the Chinese hackers have got to be the laziest. Sometimes it works for them, only because the target everyone and exploit those systems that are administered by someone just as lazy or lazier. I have an FTP log full of IP's originating in China that try to brute-force their way in. I could set the auto-ban to 1 million failed attempts and the lazy bastards will still get banned. FTP log usually looks like this: login: administrator password: 1111 login: administrator password: 2222 login: administrator password: 3333 etc...

Re:People don't know the meaning of the word "hack

[rmdpgh]

Wasn't the Net created by "hackers" working on open-source? (to share informations for free around the world?) People stealing money and private informations are Theaves, Not Hackers.

I agree with the second sentiment of thieves. Your first supposition, though, couldn't be more wrong. The 'Net started out as a US Department of Defese initiative through DARPA to ensure communications integrity across the US (in particular, the military) in the event of a catastrophe, up to and including nuclear attack from an enemy. Those communications would most certainly *not* have been shared freely around the world. At some point, there were enough private/private-ish entities on ARPAnet, it made sense to split MILNET off to perform the military functions, and *then* let the rest of the world screw around with the 'Net as you know it today.