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Highly destructive malware that infected at least three regional power authorities in Ukraine led to a power failure that left hundreds of thousands of homes without electricity last week, researchers said.

The outage left about half of the homes in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine without electricity, Ukrainian news service TSN reported in an article posted a day after the December 23 failure. The report went on to say that the outage was the result of malware that disconnected electrical substations. On Monday, researchers from security firm iSIGHT Partners said they had obtained samples of the malicious code that infected at least three regional operators. They said the malware led to "destructive events" that in turn caused the blackout. If confirmed it would be the first known instance of someone using malware to generate a power outage.

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Die Angriffe heutiger PC-Viren wirken wie Kinderkram, vergleicht man sie mit den möglichen Hacking-Szenarien der Zukunft. Zusätzlich erschreckend: Die meisten Methoden funktionieren schon jetzt.

Dieses sollte man unbeding lesen, es ist keine "Fiction", sondern Realität:

http://www.pcwelt.de/ratgeber/Ratgeber-Internet-Die-Hacking-Angriffe-von-morgen-6574782.html?r=661529925405671&lid=199547

Russian hackers growing rich, double their share of global cyber crime market in 2011.

Few nationalities are as good at making money from hacking than the Russians. Their share of the global cyber crime market, an estimated $12.5 billion black market, doubled last year to $4.5 billion, according to Moscow-based Group-IB, a cyber security services firm working mainly with the Russian government and banks to help reduce online fraud. (See infographics here.)

The Russians are hacking into your computer and your cell phone and they’re making millions as a result.

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