Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) are no strangers to cyberspace. For the last few years, they've been posting videos of their kidnap victims and rivals being tortured on YouTube. They push propaganda on Facebook and MySpace. They've even learned how to communicate with each other through Twitter to evade the watchful eyes of Mexican authorities.
But now they're taking their presence on the Internet to new levels: fraud, piracy and information theft, hacking and sabotage. This only adds to their electronic expansion of existing crimes, like extortion, intimidation and money laundering. The question is, are they targeting American individuals or businesses, and what impact are they having on US cybersecurity?
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