Smart Teen Criminals… Or pawns in organized crime?
A recent blog entry on the TrendMicro blog got me thinking about the potential structure of Cyber crime and organized cyber crime. The blog post (found here) briefly discusses how the age of those involved in cyber crime is blowing up the media spotlight lately. I started thinking about how one could organize a cyber crime tier system and someone on the top, much older and well versed in cyber crime could easily let these minors have fun, get paid and take the blame for everything. If you grab them young enough, its possible they could even escape prosecution. The way the united states legal system is set up you could end up on probation for a few years and nothing more. Those involved at the top simply collect money, dish out new orders and recruit new ones. I have to wonder where the mindset or intelligence is coming from. I myself always thought in the likes of a criminal, but when I was 14-18 I was chasing women, not creating a large enterprising botnet that stole credit cards and fixed stock prices. I mean, seriously that’s kind of cool that someone that age could come up with that, and even know about the workings of stock… Or do they? Could it be coming from somewhere else? Anyone have thoughts on this or even an article to back it up perhaps?
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