Archived Weblog Entry - 03/08/2001: "Large Criminal Hacker Attack on Windows NTE-Banking and E-Commerce Sites"

03/08/2001 Archived Entry: "Large Criminal Hacker Attack on Windows NTE-Banking and E-Commerce Sites"

SANS Alerts and Analysis - Large Criminal Hacker Attack on Windows NTE-Banking and E-Commerce Sites
In the largest criminal Internet attack to date, a group of Eastern European hackers has spent a year systematically exploiting known Windows NT vulnerabilities to steal customer data. More than a million credit cards have been taken and more than 40 sites have been victimized.