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FYI…
- http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/ar…7.html#00001182
April 30, 2007 ~ "Digital currency company EGold has been indicted by US department of justice* for suspected money laundering and illegal money transmitting. Which is interesting turn of events as we have seen EGold, Webmoney, Western union and other simliar services being used by criminals for quite long time. When looking at information we have from various malware, phishing and other internet related crimes EGold has been very prominent paying methods in transactions between criminals. We have no information whether EGold staff has been aware of misuse of their services, or whether they have been able to do anything to prevent misuse. But we have seen a lot of criminals using EGold. For example author of Haxdoor rootkit accepts EGold as payment for customised version of Haxdoor. And EGold is also seen prominent payment method for ordering DOS attacks or aquiring credit card numbers or bank account information…"
* http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2007/April/07_crm_301.html
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- http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/ar…7.html#00001182
April 30, 2007 ~ "Digital currency company EGold has been indicted by US department of justice* for suspected money laundering and illegal money transmitting. Which is interesting turn of events as we have seen EGold, Webmoney, Western union and other simliar services being used by criminals for quite long time. When looking at information we have from various malware, phishing and other internet related crimes EGold has been very prominent paying methods in transactions between criminals. We have no information whether EGold staff has been aware of misuse of their services, or whether they have been able to do anything to prevent misuse. But we have seen a lot of criminals using EGold. For example author of Haxdoor rootkit accepts EGold as payment for customised version of Haxdoor. And EGold is also seen prominent payment method for ordering DOS attacks or aquiring credit card numbers or bank account information…"
* http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2007/April/07_crm_301.html
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