10 Notorious Cyber Gangs - 9-Oga-Nigerian for
For several years now, security researchers have warned enterprises and government organizations of the growing threat posed by organized cyber criminals. Online crime rings are fleecing organizations out of customer and employee personally identifiable information, stealing passwords, intellectual property and more.
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MORE CONTEXT: Believe it or not, the creaky old Nigerian 419 scam is still alive and kicking today in spite of most tech-savvy people’s knowledge of this advance-fee ploy.
Its funny because, to this day you still hear of people who are falling or these types of scams,” says Ramzan of Symantec. “It blows my mind that this kind of stuff is still happening.”
Jackson believes that one of the biggest groups in the country calls themselves Oga, “The Bossess” in Nigeria. Both he and Ramzan say there is evidence that these baddies are branching out into other areas of cyber crime like phishing and trojan horse development on top of their old stand by the 419 scam.
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MORE CONTEXT: Jackson believes that a lot of smaller gangs from Northern Europe pose problems to security experts worldwide. Two particular examples are very small crews that call themselves Whoopie and Gaylord.
“These two teams consist about five or six people but there's website defacement, there's hardcore hardware hacking, lockpicking, you name it, they have a large array of skills between four or five members of the two groups,” Jackson says. “Those are probably the top two groups but they cause a lot collateral damage. They just break into servers and while they're doing it they'll take whatever is there.”
He reports that Whoopie may have been taken down a notch when two of their crew members were arrested earlier this month
