"S": We're waiting for the next time will not,
and continued the theme of the following articles
which is just talks about the "bad"
Hackers mentioned in a previous publication.
(C) Computerra, 1997
(C) Vitali Leontiev, 1997
"Piranha" with fake Credit Card in the teeth
Recently, my father took the unusual
gift. Returned from wandering around
Latin American jungle friend gave him a pendant with dangling
on it desiccated fish. Fish, in general, a sweet, a kind of
pot-bellied Karasik golden brown. It turned out that this is
the famous piranha. That same mileyshaya "waterfowl", which has
a nasty habit of gathering in flocks ogromadnye, eat at its the
way all that is possible. At Amazon
these "crucian" fear than sharks.
But from what started this attack, not
remember? Only with a pair of fishes,
released into the river by some amateur ...
Internet essentially - the same Amazon
big deep river with countless
many tributaries. And who can compare our homegrown hackers,
breeding with a third space velocity in its turbid waters, but
with piranhas? Little critters that appeared literally out of
nothing, omnivorous and indiscriminate, capable, rushing en
masse, no stone unturned leave from the worst company that
decided to do business on the Internet.
They appeared nearly two years ago. A year later, on Russian
hackers have started talking around the world, six months ago,
they turned into a real epidemic. And only now begin to fight
with them - timid not so lucky, but start. To them,
Russian hackers, frankly, absolutely
do not deserve, and we dedicate
my story ...
Russian "piranhas" seem like
the traditional hacker elite: a comparison with Kevin Mitnick
is clearly inappropriate. They do not crack under the force of
a modest protection, they do not live the spirit of adventure
and desire to fight the almighty protection. Piranhas belong to
the subspecies homo hapiens "- a man seize, a kind of
vybegallovskie kadavry of the unforgettable" Monday ...
"Strugatsky brothers. Mitnick You can admire, you can write
about it. About "Piranha" no one would write - it's painful
Chalk this breed, although it is dangerous. Fish-piranhas
piranhas make sharp teeth.
Hacker piranha becomes such because of the tiny programmke -
kreditogeneratoru. It is known that the credit card becomes a
major Internet means of payment - other mechanisms is extremely
inconvenient. Credit cards are paid for
consultations received, the ordered goods,
download program, finally, it has the same pay and service
provider. To do this you simply want to inform your credit card
provider, and the required amount he would withdraw himself.
These same numbers generated by the bank in a specific pattern,
analogue which is just and is the basis
pirated kreditogenerilok. Applets
These can now download virtually
any VBS, their entire collections available on the
pirated CDs. Therefore, whether
surprising that in a short period of bummed innumerable hordes
of "zipper teeth freeloaders. A profiteer, they were quick to
immediately start up the cherished programs from a business ...
As "piranhas" AOL broke ...
Natural field of piranhas
- Internet, which until recently
remain available not all: domestic providers take at least three
dollars per hour and more supplements were asked, but the
Western and say nothing. Grazing in
Russian representatives zabugornye networks such as America
online per (AOL), CompuServe and Microsoft Network (MSN),
apparently forgetting their own price (the Yankees are paying
for an unlimited time access up to 20 dollars per month),
demanded for his services ... $ 20-30 per hour! Probably there
is some higher justice in the fact what these companies were
destined to play a role "Boxing pear", where his muscles began
malaxate steep Russian hackers ...
Roasted rooster pecked its first victims
at the beginning of last autumn. Quite unexpectedly for
providers wishing to flow under the keys to the internet in
Russia is literally swept over AOL, CompuServe and MSN, which,
it would seem, should only be welcomed.
But AOL, recollecting himself first, suddenly discovered, to
his endless horror that her mast fields grazed by literally
thousands Russian riders, who, taking a line almost around the
clock, paying bogus credit cards whose numbers have been kindly
generated notorious cunning applets.
At the beginning of this overlooked
- Say, God bless them, the hackers are not so
a lot of them - but soon the number of brazen Russian passed
all reasonable limits. The result is known: scared aolovtsy
rushed from Russia to speed close to the FTL, once cut from
network of an entire country, including those who
used the service AOL is completely legal. The latter,
incidentally, is clearly going to apply for a negligent
providers court - but that's another story ...
Along with the hordes of hackers invaded AOL and CompuServe
with MSN - and is it any wonder that the past is also not slow
to cease all contact with wild Russian. Until recently, held
CompuServe, but she "gave ends in mid-March. Freestuff access
to these networks, since the spring of last year, became full
swing trading enterprising fidoshniki: for only 5-10 dollars
experienced hackers were willing to share their expertise with
eager Dummies, most of which I was sure that buy Internet
access to lawfully ...
As "piranhas" porn extracted
Get into the network by using credit cards as
proved difficult. Here would be our piranhas and calm down. But
from their point of view, the experience was a sin to leave
without application. Especially since that field of activity
opens a simple widest.
Do you think that started to make
our insatiable "piranhas", once finally in
coveted Internet? Of course, most of them sent their virtual
foot in the direction of sites relating to
category XXX. On the one hand, to understand it
easily: thanks to zealous campaign against illiteracy minded
journalists of mass media, Internet and pornography have become
virtually synonymous. On the other hand - on shastane
Internet in search of pictures with naked
aunts looks remarkably absurd pastime: much easier to drive at
the same Mitino and buy it drives a series of "funny stuff".
But the soul of Russian people truly incomprehensible!
In short, our hackers were actively
breaking porn sites. Past tend to ask for "membership" (we
assume - receive unlimited pictures) something
about 12-15 dollars per year, with access
the private area is provided immediately after the introduction
of your credit car point. Quite naturally, porn
hundreds of megabytes flowed from overseas to
Russian adventurers. And it is quite natural that the owners of
pornographic websites and raised the wave of popular
indignation, overgrown subsequently to the dimensions of this
tsunami.
By the way, and protect themselves from sexually anxious
Russian started it they are. In many opinion! Appeared
formidable warning, threatening Russian villains
all penalties heavenly - almost to the expulsion of home
address of the attacker Liquidation-castration brigades of
special designation. Such a terrible warning, written off with
one of the Danish erotic sites, more than a month caused
hysterical laughter in one of the conferences Fido ...
As "piranhas" Internet shook
In fact, all the above alone
itself could be a sufficient reason
to break out of this material. Just think, discovered America -
climbed for free to AOL! - There it is also engaged with great
pleasure. Quite recent twenty-American Niklas
Ryan was convicted of manufacturing programs from the speaker
called AOL4FREE, which were not slow to take hundreds of
Americans. So the small matter that rastryasli handful of
activists from pornography - the importance of what! Go to them
and the road, damned ...
But it's not one porno live internet.
Thousands of sites in the world wide web "trades online
commerce. Sell everything anything: books, shirts, shmaykami,
compacts and products, spare parts for cars and even by car.
Americans, of course, on such sites and is not
climbed: it's not a prank, but a serious
an offense punishable by years in prison and
the amount of the fine co many zeros. Realizing the seriousness
of the transactions with electronic money in America,
"soldered" to the full program to anyone who encroached on the
miracle of the XX century. In the search for such manipulators
immediately catches all the power of the FBI. Therefore, even
the authors of one of the programs generated numbers will warn
the user that their offspring is only intended to
"Non commercial use". The joke, of course, but
every joke has a large share of themselves
you know what.
But what is a crime for John Smith is not a crime for Musi
Tapochkina, pioneer-age, vlezshego Internet. You can be sure:
we took an active order of mail, and compact, and t-shirts, and
books. Using, of course, by the same generators credit numbers.
Have been reported even cases where, having read
articles about hackers, boiling Russian "teapot" quite
seriously tried to get into foreign bank accounts, shaking
counterfeit banknotes. Laughter, and only ...
But all that happens is not amused
owners of commercial Web sites, self
Of course, take appropriate
measures. Thank piranha - now in many
outlets on the Internet visitors
welcomes the announcement of half of the screen that
that the orders of Russian Internet users are not
accepted. Unprecedented measures, but certainly relevant
situation.
However, the secure network of commerce
Russian invasion "piranhas" and could not
it. And then, tired of the dirty tricks of small, but
voracious fishes, network commonwealth
decided to apply to the relevant authorities ...
FBI against the "Piranha", the war is declared
Late last year, many Russian computer magazines, conferences
and Fido Internet and even on TV there was information that the
FBI in conjunction with Interpol and with the help of Russian
authorities to begin large-scale operation against "piranhas".
Representatives of the FBI in publicly declared that now they
on hand a complete list of persons who "hack" AOL, MSN and
CompuServe, as well as abused the trust of online trading
services. True, this list does not strike dimensions: thus,
according to the FBI, in Moscow, home to 360 illegal users of
AOL. Of course, the actual number of several times more ...
So what shines attacker in the case of exposure? After all,
even the Russian Criminal Code in his own new version does not
specify directly responsible for the use
fake credit card numbers. More
addition, Russian law has not yet
clearly defined the very notion
credit card. And the question is: how will
judge? For crimes in the sphere of computer information or
falsification of financial documents?
One more detail: while in Russia,
"Piranhas" commit their crimes ...
in another country. Of course, their
may well delay the crossing
border (allegedly febeerovtsev all
Russian "piranhas" has long been included in
the so-called stoplist on which the hapless hacker may well
arrest right at the airport), but how many "piranhas"
waiting for such an unenviable fate?
Nevertheless, the real danger for them
exist, although most of the "piranhas" has no idea about it. As
seen on same fidoshnym conferences, many of
They do not even know that any who came to
a particular site can be easily "compute"
regardless of where he came from
and what name has been registered. The easiest is the case, of
course, with those who has a permanent IP address. These
figures are calculated per minute. Several difficult to
dynamically allocated address - namely, its usually provide
their Russian provider customers. However, any provider by
searching the "logs" can say with certainty which of his
clients at any given time has been allocated a specific
IP-address. So it should not particularly rely on a false
address e-mail, introduced by hackers with the same fake credit
card number.
True, in recent years (from which the
suddenly?) simultaneously in several major
countries, particularly in Germany and
America, have enacted laws under which the provider has no
right to give someone else information about his client without
the latter's consent. That is, the most desired "log" will be
inaccessible GOVERNMENTAL for law enforcement. In
Russia such a law, probably in the near future is foreseen.
Yet the danger of "Piranha" is threatened not
only the law. Much greater
potential threat to their address can come from ... present
owners credits. After all, whatever one may say, the probability
that the credit card number generated by the program will
coincide with the real, exists. Thus, the very real situation
that the bill for the same downloaded Moussya Kamushkin
produces porn Bill Gates. And if you steep the Russian
gangster? Especially at risk are those who use Ordering a valid
address.
As it became known, some Moscow banks have already received
complaints from its wealthy clients who are victims of
activities "piranhas". And many of them
quite prepared to make available
offended by a kind of "combat units" for
showdown. So gentlemen, "Piranha" to remember: did not happen
would be that the court and even imprisonment would be for
are almost the most desirable turn of affairs.
Instead of conclusion ... Future "piranhas"
yet unclear. Despite all the warnings, from the beginning of a
new year or the FBI, nor more Russian authorities have taken no
action against them, silent press, silent debate in Fido. But
the peace and quiet smooth, as we know, it happens before the
storm.
One may lull themselves
sweet words about the inadequacy of legislation, that the FBI
far, and owners of pornographic websites is not sorry about the
steepness of its own ... However, all these small and
disgusting. And even these hackers only frowning with disgust
when it comes to "Piranha."
Some fish change what I personally am sorry. "Trampling"
they year old, then come to its senses, will grow to become
respectable people ... So many years later it pops up, and at
the most inopportune moment say, during a business trip in the
same America. Is it worth the risk? I hope this argument will
be understood by anyone, even the most irresponsible
"pomolschiku.
Damage from the "piranhas" and expressed great
it is not so much in the specific loss suffered by those or
other virtual stores or overseas providers. Where worse is that
Russia is losing the minimal credibility that she had at first
timid steps toward civilization. Yet the inscription: "orders
from Russian do not accept "- a rare exception,
but soon it may well become the rule.
Generation program credit numbers
be found in the utilities on my computer. Of course, strong
temptation to start it set the correct type of card - and more
Internet with the magic number on hand.
But I tell you honestly and frankly: I do not
use the program and never do so in the future is not going to.
Not because of fear of liability, no
It's just different. It's not even in the conscience, and
elementary disgust. Painfully all
it's like a baby "zapodlyanki. And
First of all - himself.
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