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Brazil is one of the biggest sources of malware on the planet
- code_duck 15y agoThis isn't surprising. I've always seen br up there with ru in terms of hacker comminity activity. I noticed the two articles are set to be translated from Spanish. I have another interesting piece of info about Brazil: the language is Portugeuse and that is what those articles are written in. Note it looks a lot more like French than Spanish does.
- BoppreH 15y agoYou are right about the language in Brazil, but the articles are written in Spanish. Dead giveaways: "los", "más" (with the accent), "uno" and the letter "ñ". And I'm not sure it looks more like French than Spanish. As a native Portuguese speaker with no education on either Spanish or French, I can understand Spanish much better than French.
- g-garron 15y agoI agree with you. I'm a native Spanish speaker, and I can watch TV in Portuguese, but not in French. Have never studied none of them.
- crazygringo 15y agoToo bad I haven't earned a downvote button in my account yet. :( Please don't spread misinformation, it's clearly Spanish, not "Portugeuse" (sic), and Portuguese looks nothing like French, at least no more so than Spanish. I can't even begin to imagine where you got these impressions.
- code_duck 15y agoToo bad you haven't! Please come back when you do, it will be a strong step towards improving our society.
- code_duck 15y agoI'm really sorry everyone. I'll be over here punishing myself in a salt mine for 1000 days and nights.
- crazygringo 15y agohahaha... no worries :)
- redteddy23 15y agoInteresting that the language of choice is Delphi. Presumably because it is a teaching language and easy to pickup quickly.
- rbanffy 15y agoNot surprised. It's clear the ones who engage in criminal activity are not the smartest hackers in any given community.
- feydr 15y agoI can answer this The reason delphi is used is because the majority of this stuff is for Windows. Delphi has a LOT of stuff that makes development way way faster than say c++ when you are dealing with windows -- and the majority of these HAVE to use something lower level because of 'interesting' security implications that you can't utilize in stuff like the CLR (via c#)
- feydr 15y agothis isn't surprising at all -- latin america boxes are extremely cheap to buy -- the only ones that are cheaper are asian ones BUT, the reason people still buy them (the computers) is because if you are trying to sell something (rather than just DDOS someone) it is easier to convert someone from say Brazil rather than China through say a dating offer to match.com from a popup
- feydr 15y agoand just to show how prevalent this is: http://installsmarket.biz/index.php?lang=en http://installsmarket.biz/index.php?lang=en there are hundreds of markets like this, it's cheap, it's easy, and I could name TONS of companies that do NOT CARE that their affiliates use them
- 0x12 15y agoThat's a Russian one, funny enough, they don't do .RU (don't foul your own nest). # whois installsmarket.biz [Querying whois.neulevel.biz][whois.neulevel.biz] Domain Name: INSTALLSMARKET.BIZ Domain ID: D43691782-BIZ Sponsoring Registrar: PAKNIC LIMITED Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1367 Registrar URL (registration services): whois.paknic.com Domain Status: ok Registrant ID: PAK11021626729-1 Registrant Name: Kristina Panferova Registrant Organization: NA Registrant Address1: ul.Kosinskaya d.16-3 kv.87 Registrant City: Moscow Registrant State/Province: Moscow Registrant Postal Code: 111538 Registrant Country: Russian Federation