Russian criminals prefer targeting Australian banks over their American or European counterparts, according to an expert on cybercrime in the Former Soviet Union.
Competing hacker groups in Russia were peddling the exploit code responsible for the Windows Meta File attacks last December for US$4,000, according to security company Kaspersky Lab.
The Russian police's cybercrime division, known as Department K, has warned that Russian hackers are the best in the world.
The US Department of Justice indicted Tuesday a British man who allegedly hacked into military computer systems and shut them down in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Online news took a hit this week with Yahoo's acknowledgment that a hacker substantially altered a news story that appeared on its site.
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