The hacking and identity theft tools now earning big money for mainly Eastern European organized crime could be used by terrorists to attack the United States, an FBI official said on Wednesday.
FBI Deputy Assistant Director Steve Martinez said cybercrime was no longer the domain of teenage geeks but had been taken over by sophisticated gangs.
"Tools and methods used by these increasingly skilled hackers could be employed to cripple our economy and attack our critical infrastructure as part of a terrorist plot," Martinez told a conference in Miami on Internet security.
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