Point of View: Media cybercrime

Joe Mandese

In January, traffic on one of Moscow's busiest roads came to a halt when ads on roadside video billboards were pre-empted by a porn video.

Media cybercrime

Joe Mandese

One night in mid-January, traffic on one of Russia's busiest roads came to a standstill as motorists stopped to crane their necks in disbelief at what was occurring on the big-screen video billboards that line Moscow's Garden Ring Road. For about 20 minutes the screens' normal advertising fare was pre-empted by a porn video that made even cosmopolitan Muscovites blush, and sent the Russian authorities into a frenzy in their attempts to turn it off.

It was the work of a new breed of computer hackers that have become increasingly brazen in their efforts to seize...

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