Below, a report about
Russian Cybercrime issued by Group-IB.
Key Trends in 2011
·
Russian
Cybercrime Doubles: The global cybercrime
market was more than $12.5 billion in 2011. The global Russian speaking
component of that market was more than $4 billion; and the Russian national
cybercrime market was $2.3 billion, essentially doubling last year’s
number of $1.2 billion.
·
Mafia
Professionalizes Russian Cybercrime: Traditional crime
syndicates are beginning to organize the previously disorganized Russian
cybercrime market. In addition, these crime syndicates are beginning to work
more closely together, sharing compromised data, botnets, and cashing schemes.
·
Online
Fraud and Spam Account for More than Half of Russian Cybercrime: In 2011, the largest type of Russian cybercrime was online
fraud at $942 million; followed by spam at $830 million; cybercrime to
cybercrime, or C2C (including services for anonymization and sale of traffic,
exploits, malware, and loaders) at $230 million; and DDoS at $130 million.
·
Criminal
profiles: Group-IB specialists and CERT-GIB analysts
profile details of 5 cyber criminals caught in 2011.
The full report can be found here
http://group-ib.com/images/media/Group-IB_Report_2011_ENG.pdf
