This from the Guardian:
Organised gangs are recruiting the next generation of internet criminals by approaching undergraduates on university campuses.
In some cases gangs offer to finance undergraduates' studies and plant them as sleepers within target businesses, according to a report on cybercrime which draws on intelligence from the FBI and British and European hi-tech crime units.
Greg Day, security analyst for McAfee, said: "A lot of these people go into chatrooms, discussion sites, and start a discussion. Organised crime is involved in that."
Inexperienced young hackers often talk to each other in an internet slang known as l33t, which helps gangs target them. One popular tactic is blackmail. "They'll say: 'We know you did this, we can shop you unless you come and work for us'. Sponsoring students through a degree is more likely to happen in less affluent countries like Russia or India."
The report warns: "There is a false economy of trust. People don't present personal information to strangers on the street, but building profiles online means that internet criminals can instantly access a mine of details - names and interests, pets and life stories."
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