https://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKCN1SM1CA-OCATP
On the 16th of May, Wired posted an article called “Police smash ‘GozNym’ cybercrime network that stole $100 million ”. Wired has a left-center bias, but uses factual information. This article looks at a report from Europol. In this article Wired talks about Europol’s success in “disassembling” the cybercrime group “Goznym” – a Eastern European/Russian based Cybercriminal organization. They talk about each of the key members arrested, and how they operated. They also talk a bit about how their organization was based, having members all over Eastern Europe and Western Russia.
I believe that this article really shows that we can do something about all of this crime. From the dark web trading from a previous article, to the “money mules” of another previous article, to even a huge international organization like this one, this article in particular has shown us that people can stop this cybercrime. I think the fact that they listed out very detailed information about each key member and how they operated was very interesting to me, and showed how vulnerable they were once they were figured out. For example One man used a specific “wire-transfer” hack which was easy to stop once they knew what he was doing. The way the organization was structured also shows how organized these people can be like for example these people would have two people to get the information, then two to get into the account, then another two to use their accounts, etc. These organizations are like a company or a country, with a power hierarchy, but they are a group of criminals. I think showing off how powerful and organized these gangs can be, as well as showing that we can stop them, was a perfect way to go about this article, as its a problem-solution approach to the problem in this article, and I got some solid information on how they are structured from this article.
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