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Stolen Twitter Accounts Can Fetch $1,000

January 30, 2010

Stolen Twitter Accounts Can Fetch $1,000

PCWorld, By Robert McMillan

According to researchers at Kaspersky Lab, cybercriminals are trying to sell hacked Twitter user names and passwords on-line for hundreds of dollars.

Since 2005, the bad guys have been developing new data-stealing malware that is now a growing problem on the Internet. Some of these programs look for banking passwords, others hunt for on-line gaming credentials. But the fastest-growing data stealers are generic spying programs that try to steal as much information as possible from their victims, said Kaspersky Researcher Dmitry Bestuzhev, speaking at a press event Friday.

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Stolen Twitter Accounts Can Fetch $1,000

Stolen Twitter Accounts Can Fetch $1,000
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