Estonian Clickjacking Ring Totally Busted

[Guest]

A pretty ingenious con, all things considered.

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[nurgletheunclean]

I-tunes -> idownload-store-music, irs -> hr block. I seems very well engineered. I can't help suspect that those companies knew what they were paying them for.

 

[mouse24]

This can pretty much be done in the command line, honestly it was a semi inventive way to make a bit of cash, sure people were a bit annoyed at the so called malware but still, it didn't infect files nor did it take credit card information.

Surely this must be a slap on the wrist type of offense

Couldn't there prosecution have been prevented if they put up a small flier on there landing page saying "you agree that by visiting this site that the site owners cannot be held responsible for anything downloaded, etc etc etc." (bad wording, but im not a lawyer...)

 

[a sandwhich]

I am pretty sure I got this. Or something like it. Everytime I clicked a link it would redirect me somewhere. I just removed that old vista partition and got on with my life.

 

[ikyung]

I wonder why these con artists would clickjack iTunes Apple users? They are the smartest bunch of the IT flock. Obviously they would have erased the malware instantly! ......... Right?

 

[house70]

Another case of PEBKAC.

 

[alyoshka]

What is interesting is that there is no mention of the time frame when all this happened. They finally got busted, but when? they started off with this DNS Changer thingy from the Idiots book of blah blah blah but when? and how long did it take them make the 14Million greens? how long did it take them to infect the 4Million rigs and the 500,000 geeks?

 

[scrumworks]

Typical Estonian. Bunch of crooks whole nation.

 

[sa1nt]

[citation][nom]scrumworks[/nom]Typical Estonian. Bunch of crooks whole nation.[/citation]
All names and surnames are russian they just had estonian nationality.

 

[cookoy]

they should have patented the scheme, sold the info to the AV makers and live off the licensing fees they charge for each AV license sold.

 

[Guest]

alyoshka - since 2006-2007

 

[eddieroolz]

Good job to the American law enforcement.