An Indian national was sentenced to 81 months in prison for hacking into online brokerage accounts and using those accounts to systematicallymanipulate stock prices for personal gain. Underground marketplace pricing on RDP server access, compromised payment card data and DDoS-For-Hire services are surging. A report on the underground economy finds that malicious actors are offering cloud-based troves of stolen data, accessible with handy tools to slice and dice what s on offer. Read the full article.
Source: https://threatpost.com/pump-and-dump-hacker-gets-7-year-sentence-042710/73885/