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Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon

Cyber crime originating from Russia and Eastern Europe is increasing in both scale and sophistication, according to a senior Italian police investigator.

“The way cyber crime has changed criminality is the biggest challenge for us. It is a huge challenge to face this criminal phenomenon,” said Paolo Sartori, who works with Interpol in Romania against cyber crime in Russia and Eastern Europe.

Cyber crime is even changing the nature of traditional organized crime groups who are using hackers to make fast, relatively easy money.

Sartori, speaking at a cyber security conference in Lugano, Switzerland, outlined the nature of Russian cyber crime activities that are increasingly focusing on the use of malicious software in handheld devices, as well as through cyber extortion and theft of credit card numbers. The two-day conference was hosted by Franklin University Switzerland and KNC consulting.

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