http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/business/global/02hacker.html By David Barboza The New York Times February 1, 2010 CHANGSHA, China -- With a few quick keystrokes, a computer hacker who goes by the code name Majia calls up a screen displaying his latest victims. "Here's a list of the people who've been infected with my Trojan horse," he says, working from a dingy apartment on the outskirts of this city in central China. "They don't even know what's happened." As he explains it, an online "trapdoor" he created just over a week ago has already lured 2,000 people from China and overseas -- people who clicked on something they should not have, inadvertently spreading a virus that allows him to take control of their computers and steal bank account passwords. Majia, a soft-spoken college graduate in his early 20s, is a cyberthief. He operates secretly and illegally, as part of a community of hackers who exploit flaws in computer software to break into Web sites, steal valuable data and sell it for a profit. [...] ________________________________________ Did a friend send you this? From now on, be the first to find out! Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.orgReceived on Tue Feb 02 2010 - 22:15:33 PST
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