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quote: Security experts say Russian hackers are using a sophisticated attack to compromise major E-commerce Web sites, which then infect visitors with hacker tools designed to steal passwords and financial data, and possibly spew spam.
Steal passwords and financial data: sounds like money to me.
Spew spam: spam is low cost (pretty much nil), and that one in a thousand person that does buy covers all costs and then a hefty profit margin. Yet again, more money.
Here's an interview with a (now retired) spammer telling how he did it, including his profits that was on slashdot a while ago: http://rejo.zenger.nl/abuse/1085493870.php
Phanto is right, money...and lots of it. Satyagraha
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