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• Russia steals malware gold from China

  Russia has passed China to become the largest generator of spyware and other malicious code, according to a report.

• Russian criminals prefer Australian banks

  Russian criminals prefer targeting Australian banks over their American or European counterparts, according to an expert on cybercrime in the Former Soviet Union.

• Infamous Russian malware gang disappears

  An alleged Russian malware hosting gang has abruptly disappeared, according to security experts.

• Russian hackers hawked Windows exploit for US$4,000

  Competing hacker groups in Russia were peddling the exploit code responsible for the Windows Meta File attacks last December for US$4,000, according to security company Kaspersky Lab.

• Chinese cybercops 'nailing virus writers'

  A Chinese police force that is dedicated to fighting virus writers is getting results, according to Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Labs.

• Microsoft: SP2 shimmy's not a flaw

  Microsoft downplayed the significance of a reported flaw in its latest update to Windows XP.

• Russian hackers 'the best in the world'

  The Russian police's cybercrime division, known as Department K, has warned that Russian hackers are the best in the world.

• Russia gets ready to gag online dissent

  Russia's parliament may give final approval this week to sweeping restrictions on using the Internet to oppose the government.

• Trojan horse drives spam into mobile phones

  A malicious program has co-opted some Russian PCs as part of an illicit campaign to send spam to mobile phone owners, an antivirus company has warned.

• Apher worm: From Russia with problems

  Why would Microsoft send you an announcement of a new antivirus product from Russia? It wouldn't. Yet the author of the Apher worm (w32.apher@mm) is willing to bet someone will fall for it.

• The business of e-blackmail

  The Internet and e-mail have become weapons of choice as criminals take industrial espionage and blackmail to new heights.

• Russian Mafia threatens Net

  Organised crime rings in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union are increasingly hacking into U.S. e-commerce and banking Web sites, posing an enormous economic threat.

• Escalating DoS attacks may 'shut down the Internet'

  Denial-of-service attacks are growing faster than bandwidth is being added to the Internet, according to VeriSign, the company that administers the .com domain.

• Anti-spam advocate succumbs to spammer

  A prominent crusader against unsolicited e-mail ads withdrew from an escalating cyberwar with spammers on Wednesday after his Web site and numerous others came under a massive retaliatory attack.

• Web site virus attack blunted

  Web surfers are no longer playing Russian roulette each time they visit a Web site, security researchers say, now that a far-reaching Internet attack has been disarmed.

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