Chinese hackers get the drop on fashion houses

ROME -- Organized teams of Chinese hackers are breaking into the computers of Western companies to steal fashion ideas and counterfeit them before the genuine articles can hit the streets, Italy's domestic intelligence service reports.
"Platoons of seasoned, unscrupulous cyber pirates, crackers and hackers of every kind ... make up an exponentially growing and unstoppable army," says a report made public in Gnosis, a magazine published by Italy's SISDE counterintelligence agency.
As much as 20 percent of Internet viruses and "spam" messages that jam e-mails around the world originate in China, the article claims. It says Chinese mobsters profit most from pornography -- including sites that sell videos for pedophiles and traffic in date-rape drugs, heroin and counterfeit medicines.
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