
Cybercrimes Against Assets 101
Thefts of telecommunications services account for some of the greatest
economic losses experienced by telecommunications operators. Telecommu-
nication infrastructures are high priority targets for criminals. Once fraudsters
have accessed the switchboard and gained access to the PBX (Private Branch
eXchange – telecommunication switch) by stealing identities and access
codes, they can have access to dial-in/dial-out circuits. This provides free calls
and call time, which can be sold and thus used to generate prots as illustrated
by the two following examples.
In 2000, a computer engineer was accused of stealing ...