How the Secret Service Busted ShadowCrew

plover writes "In the story Hacker Hunters, BusinessWeek Online documents how the Secret Service turned a member of the ShadowCrew and was able to arrest dozens of the members of the phishing ring. From the article: 'Law enforcement officials are often loath to reveal details of their operations, but the Secret Service and Justice Dept. wanted to publicize a still-rare victory. So they agreed to reveal the inner dynamics of their cat-and-mouse chase to BusinessWeek. The case provides a window into the arcane culture of cybercriminals and the methods of their pursuers. ' "

Comments

Operation Firewall?

[Anonymous Coward]

How do they come up with such clever names?

Re:Why doesn't this make sense?

[eln]

It's because the two words are too close together. To avoid confusion in the future, we should start calling crackers "honkys".

Re:Money

[ArsonSmith]

You think someone in the public service is going to say, "We had plenty of money. I just fucked up and browsed slashdot all day rather than actually do something usefull with it."

Check if you're on the list.

[DrEldarion]

I have the huge list of e-mail addresses that were compromised. If you want to know if you're on it, please reply with your e-mail address and password and I'll get back to you if you're on the list!

Re:IRC meeting as the bust went down?

[Anonymous Coward]

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*HXXR84 is now snitch4l
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Re:Impunity?

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, hacker mob investigates YOU.