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Japanese Cops Collar Malware-Carrying Cat
Orome1 writes "When imagining law enforcement officers investigating and searching for cyber criminals or evidence about their activities, the last thing that you can probably envision is them searching for a stray cat. But that was exactly what detectives of Japan's National Police Agency recently did as the last step in a complex 'treasure hunt' started on New Year's Day by a person (persons?) who is allegedly the mastermind behind the so-called 'Remote Control Virus.' The malware in question was instrumental in staging a continuous campaign of death and bomb threats sent to airline companies, kindergartens, schools, law offices, broadcasting networks and shrines."
"I stopped it because it was acting catty."
Table-ized A.I.
Copy Cat
Table-ized A.I.
They're tired of us using their pics on the net.... Payback is comming!
Having read the article it seems the real crime to be investigated here would come from:
In a particularly embarrassing episode of the investigation, the Japanese police arrested four of those unsuspecting individuals and extracted "confessions" from them, only for other institutions to receive threats containing details that only the real criminal behind the scheme would know - while the four were in custody.
Stop right there criminal MEOW!
That's actually quite a freaky payload, and I can imagine this would have big consequences if used in the US (and their over-reactions to anything terrorist-like). ...
Actually, can't wait to see massive outbreak of this in the US...
the cat came back the very next day
Does that make it a "script kitty"?
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
Why would someone with C# experience write malware... to threaten random people? That seems... pointless.
I read "Puss 'N Reboots" as a kid.
Table-ized A.I.
Reminds me of the ill fated Acoustic Kitty in the 60s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty
Of course he does...
/sunglasses
He's playing cat and mouse.
Mcatfee
-5, too cheesy
Table-ized A.I.
The antivirus is on orion's belt.
Why would someone with C# experience write malware... to threaten random people? That seems... pointless.
Actually, it sounds redundant, not pointless.
--If you code for the exceptions, the rules fall into place
...the headline could read "Kobe Cops Collar Crookware-Carrying Cat".
Proverbs 21:19
Its been done before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty
It will be better to purchase from an owner who is a good farmer and a good builder.
Aineko FTW.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that a cyber-criminal using a domestic cat to send messages to the police about a computer virus sounds more like something from a futuristic cyberpunk anime than real life?
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Or did they lock it up in solitary confinement.
C-sharp? Pointless? I guess it could just have an edge without a point, like Xena's Chakram.
His only crime is making bomb threats from hacked machines. The police is stupid to participate in his game, they get what they deserve.
^^^
I'm just guessing here, but I think what is going on is that the GP AC supports a hacking group that uses the initials CFC and taunting another group that is referred to by -A-. It's possible that -A- refers to the well known Anonymous group, but I doubt it. It is also possible that CFC is involved in the cybercrime case mentioned in TFA. One possible scenario is that -A- is believed to be responsible for the original crime and CFC is responsible for making a game out of passing tips to the police.
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Sadly, they don't award 34,000$ for Xena references like that. This is not a meritocracy.
is this the same criminal kitty recently spotted trying to help prisoners escape in Brazil?
All your pussy are belong to us?
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
EVER, for ANY reason.
Doesn't matter if you are innocent
Doesn't matter if you are guilty
Doesn't matter if you are just a bystander
Doesn't matter if they are just canvasing the neighborhood
Don't talk to police.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I did not pirate on a boat
I did not pirate via goat (se)
I did not write too much code
and load the network up with bloat
I did not write green eggs* and spam
I did not write it, Sergent Ham!
* Easter
Table-ized A.I.
Yeeeeeaaaaah!
Foster and Mac have pulled a man over for speeding and are deciding what game to play]
Mac: All right, how about "Cat Game?"
Foster: Cat Game? What's the record?
Mac: Thorny did six, but I think you can do ten.
Foster: Ten? Starting right 'meow?'
[Mac laughs - they walk up to the car, and Foster taps on the driver side]
Larry Johnson: Sorry about the...
Foster: All right meow. (1) Hand over your license and registration.
[the man hands him his license]
Foster: Your registration? Hurry up meow. (2)
[Mac ticks off two fingers]
Larry Johnson: Sorry.
[the man laughs a little]
Foster: Is there something funny here boy?
Larry Johnson: Oh, no.
Foster: Then why you laughing, Mister... Larry Johnson?
[pause]
Foster: All right meow, (3) where were we?
Larry Johnson: Excuse me, are you saying meow?
Foster: Am I saying meow?
[Mac puts his hands up for the fourth one, but makes an "eehhh" facial expression, as he is considering the last one]
Larry Johnson: I thought...
Foster: Don't think boy. Meow, (4) do you know how fast you were going?
[man laughs]
Foster: Meow. (5) What is so damn funny?
Larry Johnson: I could have sworn you said meow.
Foster: Do I look like a cat to you, boy? Am I jumpin' around all nimbly bimbly from tree to tree?
[Mac is gut-busting laughing]
Foster: Am I drinking milk from a saucer?
[feigned anger]
Foster: Do you see me eating mice?
Foster: [Mac and the man are laughing their heads off now] You stop laughing right meow! (6)
Larry Johnson: [the man stops and swallows hard] Yes sir.
Foster: Meow, (7) I'm gonna have to give you a ticket on this one. No buts meow. (8) It's the law.
[rips off the ticket and hands it to the man]
Foster: Not so funny meow, (9) is it?
Foster: [Foster gets up to leave, but Mac shakes his hands at him, indicating only nine meows] Meow! (10)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247745/quotes?qt0470809
It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said.
From TFA:
Japan's well-resourced National Police Agency (NPA) was embarrassed after it emerged officers had extracted "confessions" from four people who had nothing to do with the emails.
TFA does not mention the color of confessors' skin.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
First they caught one with drill bits, a cell phone and saw blades sneaking into a prison.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/06/world/americas/brazil-jailbreak-cat/index.html
now this?
never liked cats.. now I know why.
I'm just guessing here, but I think what is going on is that the GP AC supports a hacking group that uses the initials CFC and taunting another group that is referred to by -A-. It's possible that -A- refers to the well known Anonymous group, but I doubt it. It is also possible that CFC is involved in the cybercrime case mentioned in TFA. One possible scenario is that -A- is believed to be responsible for the original crime and CFC is responsible for making a game out of passing tips to the police.
-A- is shit
Trying to make us think that a dog wrote that. Even referring to a human as your "master".
Dogs are not capable of conjuring such a deceitful line of thought without breaking into praise of balls, either organic or rubber ones. Several times.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
...by the hacker in question.
The discovery was made after messages were sent to newspapers and broadcasters, with the sender claiming details of a computer virus were strapped to a cat living on an island near Tokyo.
Wrong goddamn prefecture, wrong goddamn island.
Hopefully, next time he will strap the memory card to a rabbit - on the correct island for that.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
-A- is/was an alliance on EVE online (hundreds or thousands of players).
CFC is a coalition of EVE online alliances (tens of thousands of players).
Not entirely suprising that they turn up in a thread about kittens either.
Is it a coincidence, that 90% of prisoners in the US are there on confessions alone?
[citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plea_bargaining_in_the_United_States
Because of this, people who might have been acquitted because of lack of evidence, or who are in fact truly innocent, will often plead guilty to a charge. Why? In a word, fear.
Theoretical work based on the prisoner's dilemma is one reason why, in many countries (including mine), plea bargaining is illegal.
Anyone quoted by a reporter knows how little they understand
Don't believe what you read is the truth.
> DON'T TALK TO POLICE EVER, for ANY reason.
> Doesn't matter if you are innocent
> Doesn't matter if you are guilty
> Doesn't matter if you are just a bystander
> Doesn't matter if they are just canvasing the neighborhood
> Don't talk to police.
Thanks for the insight, Don Corleone!
Omerta, onesta, vendetta is the way of the men! (also bushido)
I never thought I'd see the day when comic book supervillains come to life.
Live Action.
Suppose the sd card is loaded with malware. You say, the police scan it securely first.
Suppose it is loaded with malware, but that doesn't matter.
Suppose the emails they sent to the press are loaded with malware. In the tantalizing_clues.pdf attachment, of course.
Suppose they miss the malware. The police of course request these tantalizing_clues.
Suppose they don't scan the files from the press - the press must have scanned them of course.
This person likes riddles, and apparently charades as well.
From the summary, I was expecting a tiny battery-powered Wifi device stuck to the cat's collar, sending the anonymous threats by way of every unsecured access point the cat walked past and receiving C&C commands for its next strike.
Caveat Emptor is not a business model.