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| Even the Russian military cyber security experts are often overwhelmed by the increasingly sophisticated hackers to carry out the action. |
Russian hackers who do not want to be identified told the Russian Today that his work is very simple.
"Customers may differ from schoolchildren to entrepreneurs. Amount order depending on what you are doing and professionalism," said the hacker. "I do not feel any particular danger from the authorities, both domestically and from abroad. Hackers will always be one step ahead of the law. It's always been this way and will continue to do so."
It's not just about hacking into the personal lives - cyber attacks have the ability to make the entire country offline.
In Estonia in 2007 and in Georgia during the war in 2008, hackers were able to freeze all Internet activity and refused to crucial services to the banking system and government. Many have accused the Russian government of orchestrating cyber attacks, a claim denied by Moscow, although the history of hacking in Russia longstanding and well-established.
A famous group known as the RBN, or Russian Business Network, established in St. Petersburg in late 1990. In addition to launching denial of service, known as Distributed Denial of Service, and phishing attacks, the group also said to have a host of more than 1,500 child pornography websites.
Under pressure from the Russian government and the IT expert, RBN officially collapsed in 2007, but none were caught. Instead, the organization moved operations to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, UK and U.S. - and is still considered very dangerous.
Jart Ahmed of the RBNExploit say how the hackers are very sophisticated organized.
"Basically, it's like the whole country offline and disconnected from the Internet connection," said Ahmed told RT. "This is why NATO is now felt that the RBN is a threat and a Russian hacker community is a common threat."
The main obstacle lies in the cyber criminals freeze on Russian law - for the police to begin the process, they need a statement from the affected person, which is rare. IT specialists such as Alexander Gostev of Kaspersky Lab also blamed a lack of international cooperation.
"We need to create a sort of Interpol who could coordinate the work of agencies such as cyber," said Gostev. "These measures are taken, there is an organization called IMPACT established by us that have formed close relationships with several law enforcement agencies around the world."
And this kind of framework which experts say is very important, because fighting global threats will only work with global collaboration.
In August last year, Russia also accused of hacking action 'destruction' of the popular social media sites, Facebook and Twitter. The reason is that the hackers wanted to target bloggers Georgia.
Georgia is a blogger who uses the name maya Cyximu, a region in Georgia, who often wrote a scathing writings related to the war that has been raging between Georgia and Russia.
Since then the hackers who do not like writing the 34-year-old professor, bombarding Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Live Journal with an attack technique among hackers known as Distribute Denial of Service (DDOS).
Cyxymu popular among bloggers will its pro scathing criticism against Georgia and Russia over the war between Russia-Georgia in August 2008. This fact has prompted some speculation that the attacks originated from Russia and is a way to silence the internet activist.
The most surprising part of this story may not be a cyber attack itself, but the repercussions across the world which is still audible. And the main topic Cyxymu blog seems to be the reason. Someone who is not famous at all suddenly become very popular in a short time. With leading newspapers from around the world who wrote the story and interview-such as the Washington Post and the New York Times from the U.S., the Daily Mail of Canada, from the UK Guardian, Liberation of France, El Pais of Spain, Yomiuri of Japan, and many the other - the number of people who heard about Cyxymu and thoughts increased rapidly to hundreds of millions.
Meanwhile, in addition to DDoS techniques, the hackers also take action on behalf of millions of spam emails Georgi to a number of targets. The goal is clearly to bring down the image of Georgi as spammers. Not only Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal were targeted, some Georgian government sites also came under attack from hackers.
Source: Reuters
