Brazilian hackers are mostly known for their stealing and misusing phished banking credentials and credit card numbers, but also for their penchant to openly brag online about their illegal activities.
"To help new 'entrepreneurs' or beginners interested in a life of cybercrime, some Brazilian bad guys started to offer paid courses," he reveals. "Others went even further, creating a Cybercrime school to sell the necessary skills to anyone who fancies a life of computer crime but lacks the technical know-how."
“This course is intended for everybody making online transactions. You will learn how crackers take control of corporate or home computers, what social engineering is all about, how 'auto-infect' works, how to use sources (of Trojans), how to manipulate the security plugins installed on browsers such as IE, Firefox, Chrome, Avant, Opera, and antivirus and firewalls. How spamming helps to catch new victims, what 'loaders' do and how crackers use them. You’ll learn all the slang used by crackers and bankers and find out about things like 'loaders', 'info', 'cc', 'admin', 'laras (money mules)', 'Desco, Ita, Uni, Sta, CEF, BB, City (popular names of Brazilian Banks), and much more. You’ll discover how crackers clone credit cards, checkbooks, IDs, driver’s licenses, birth certificates and other documents. You’ll learn how crackers can own e-commerce websites that store credit card numbers and what they do with this data. You’ll learn about the laws in Brazil and what the sentence is if you’re caught, as well as what risks you run and how to avoid getting caught. All this and much more is part of our course,” the "banking" course is explained on the school's website, and the spamming course comes complete with 60 million neatly categorized email addresses so that the newly initiated spammer can start churning out spam immediately.