Cybercrime Boss Offers Ferrari to Top Hacker
A cybercrime boss has offered a Ferrari to the hacker who can come up with the best online scam, according to a European law enforcement official.
Speaking to the Independent on Sunday, Troels Oerting, the head of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), said that a video was posted on the so-called dark net, an encrypted network that ensures users' anonymity, offering lavish rewards for young technological talent.
"A kingpin will offer a Porsche or a Ferrari to sub-groups who earn the most money," said Oerting, who added that the video was shot from a "car showroom, with a couple of blondes and a guy saying: those who make most money can get this car". He warned that the threat from cyber criminals was so serious that it could result in the creation of a new two-tier Europe, in which the wealthy can afford the increasingly expensive technology necessary to ensure cyber security, while the unprotected poor are robbed by cyber criminals and hit with fines by banks no longer able to cover their losses.
