Reddit reviews Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door
We found 2 Reddit comments about Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
He is rated the #7 spammer in the world according to Spamhaus. Whether or not he was involved in attempted hacks of the two state databases is not so clear. RT is possibly overstating the evidence on that one. His Kelihos botnet is associated with election meddling is all that is known for sure publically. TBD. I think the FBI figures he may know more than actually be involved and therefore a possible deal. RT is probably not liking that.
> Peter Carr, a spokesman for the U.S. Justice Department’s criminal division, said: "The U.S. case remains under seal, so we have no information to provide at this time."
> Levashov was better known as “Severa,” the hacker moniker used by a pivotal figure in many Russian-language cybercrime forums. Severa was the moderator for the spam subsection of multiple online communities, and in this role served as the virtual linchpin connecting virus writers with huge spam networks — including some that Severa allegedly created and sold himself.
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> There is ample evidence that Severa is the cybercriminal behind the Waledac spam botnet, a spam engine that for several years infected between 70,000 and 90,000 computers and was capable of sending approximately 1.5 billion spam messages a day.
More background on this guy can be found in this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Spam-Nation-Organized-Cybercrime-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B00L5QGBL0/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1
Titles from Palo Alto's Cybersecurity Canon may make for great reads in this audience. Here are some of my favorites:
If you want to know where private investigation will be two or three decades from now... begin with Future Crimes.