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Cyber Crime Update: Is Organized Crime Moving Into Cyber Space?

The answer, in my opinion, is an unqualified "Yes." - ferg

Bob Brown writes on NetworkWorld:

As if FBI special agent Tim O’Brien and his cybercrime fighting comrades don’t already have their hands full with bot herders, virus writers and other loosely-aligned crooks, now people are wondering when more traditional organized crime will grab a piece of the action.

Following his presentation at CIO Forum, O’Brien was asked by one technology pro about whether the real-life Tony Sopranos of the organized crime world have caught the cybercrime bug.

“I don’t think traditional organized crime in this country is involved the cybersphere yet, but that’s certainly a possibility,” he says. “A lot of it’s benign crime…it goes under the radar and most people don’t know anything about it. It’s not murder, it’s not racketeering, it’s stuff that’s not going to make a headline. The chances of making a tremendous amount of money off that without getting caught are much higher than going out and murdering your enemies.”

posted by Fergie @ 5/09/2007 03:29:00 PM