Stocks and Hacks
People are now getting a bit more adventurous in what kind of attacks they perform. This one goes for the root of all evil, money and stock market. An Asian fellow gained access to an Internet brokerage and proceeded to dump all existing holdings and bought for himself lightly traded stocks to inflate the price big time. This pump and dump technique is not new but it has never been seen in security hacking context before.
Furthermore, there is spam going around propagating a rumour that United Airlines is about to crash. (The share that is and one of its planes). The ‘bankruptcy’ has been doing the rounds and caused the stock price to take a hammering