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Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police
Okian Warrior writes in about a package of heroin that found its way to the door of Brian Krebs. "'Fans' of [security researcher Brian Krebs] have shown their affection in some curious ways. One called in a phony hostage situation that resulted in a dozen heavily armed police surrounding my home. Another opened a $20,000 new line of credit in my name. Others sent more than $1,000 in bogus PayPal donations from hacked accounts. Still more admirers paid my cable bill for the next three years using stolen credit cards. Malware authors have even used my name and likeness to peddle their wares. But the most recent attempt to embarrass and fluster this author easily takes the cake as the most elaborate: Earlier this month, the administrator of an exclusive cybercrime forum hatched and executed a plan to purchase heroin, have it mailed to my home, and then spoof a phone call from one of my neighbors alerting the local police. Thankfully, I had already established a presence on his forum and was able to monitor the scam in real time and alert my local police well in advance of the delivery."
http://krebsonsecurity.com/
Slagborr
...And why is an article with a broken link featuring on the /. homepage? Are the moderators drunk?
Cybercriminals have..
i mean, wtf
http://youareanidiot.org/
A guy named Czar posted a thinly veiled threat as a comment upon Krebs' blog post:
"and easy to speak of the lives of others [hackers, carders, botmasters]
you [Krebs] invade the forum these guys and find that they do not go doing anything?, it would be foolish on your part
be realistic, you are at risk talking shit about these guys
this minimum and that they can make in relation to you,
Now, imagine if it was a bomb?, what do you think? [Krebs]
would be surprising if some hacker will not do this someday
good luck with your work, the risks are increasing lol;"
Now one wonders how THAT is going to be played out....
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
I posted a comment on his blog a while ago where I questioned the validity of the results of his research that caught a lot of attention a while back. For example, one of his biggest finds was that that one of the scammer' name is Vasily Ivanovich Petrov, which is just a placeholder name just like Joe Public in Russian. He never approved my comment or provided any feedback. If he was an actual researcher, he wouldn't silence reasonable criticism towards him.
It's sad to see him get one meaningless article after another on Slashdot.
then it won't matter if he spots the plot...
I don't know who he, but I get the feeling that if he keeps publicizing everything that people send his way or do to him, it might become an internet past-time for more people to start doing the same. It'll be like an internet gameshow:
"Who can send the craziest thing to Brian Krebs?"
It's all fun and games til somebody decides to send a shit covered blasting cap or who knows what else.
Careful with names containing L slashdot.org/~AiphaWolf_HK slashdot.org/~AlphaWoif_HK slashdot.org/~AiphaWoif_HK
Nice scheme :) now the dude can do basically anything and blame it on others...
You have to wonder how often law enforcement does this to justify SWAT raids.
Cybercriminals HAS [sic] Heroin?
What is this, I Can Haz Slashdot?
Disclosing the ways he found out about the plot will only prompt the criminals to be more careful. Now they know which of their communication channels Krebs listens to and that their btc wallets have been traced, and can take measures to evade raising suspicion next time.
Hello is that 118Lube :D
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
but I have to wonder how many bitcoin users are government intelligence officers of assorted nationalities, or even security officers for assorted private corporations doing stuff that they do not want traced.
This is obviously yet another blatant attempt by the federal government to discredit a real American hero. Not convinced? Look at the facts:
I could go on and on, but I believe these facts speak for themselves.
I tried that "Hey, cybercriminals delivered this heroin to me" routine and the cops didn't buy it.
I have shitty luck.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I'm still amazed the police gave a shit. Around here they normally just fob you off until the drugs actually arrive, then arrest you and take your DNA, computers, phones etc. Then finally when you get a lawyer they might drop the case (typically takes about six months if it's fast-tracked) and then after a few years you get your stuff back.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
"Who can send the craziest thing to Brian Krebs?"
A bobcat? http://xkcd.com/325/
- Blah blah blah, missing scientist. Blah blah blah, atomic bomb. -
Another reason why the war on drugs does more harm than good. This guy is lucky to be alive and was very fortunate to have the wherewithal to be one step ahead of the ne'er-do-wells. Anyone else would have had a very real chance of getting injured, maimed or killed by the local paramilitary police force. Let's not kid ourselves, it probably helps that he's white and privileged, too.
If we had sane drug policy, the worst that could have happened is having the drugs confiscated and getting a slap-on-the-wrist regulatory fine.
It's the perfect DOS against the police. Keep them so busy with one person until they finally realize they are the ones wasting all their own money and resources; THEN, they will stop arresting people for stupid things, will leave people alone unless they are really required.
I wonder how the drug dealers will respond to him calling the police, and them not getting their product back, or paid for it.
I hope he does not have to pay EFT fees and other stuff to fix that and that they don't cut him off. What cable co lets someone pay for 3 years up front like that without an fraud flag going up?
Whilst I would never advocate harm to an animal (and am not doing so now), I'm sure this could be done at no harm to the welfare of the cat...
Come'on people...someone's got to have access to a Bobcat, the correct type of cage etc....
INTERNET - TIME TO DELIVER!!!
Or, a length of rubber hose, a ski mask, and a map of the Pentagon.....
http://xkcd.com/576/
Cybercriminals plot to send a large package of heroin to his house
[success kid]
Lurk on the forum, hear about the plan, alert the cops in time to stop them from finding the meth lab
Some people have that name :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Ivanovich_Petrov.
When yous ay some guy is "joe Smith" and the first hit is a general in the army... That means at least ONE person is named that way, and therefore ANOTHER can be. So your assumption that the name means nothing is falsified.
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Usually? Are you trying to say getting set up in this manner is a common occurrence where you live?
Brian Krebs is a former Washington Post investigative journalist who has been writing about Internet security issues for a long time. He writes a lot about malicious attacks and often exposes the attackers. These are not nice people, either; they are spammers, botnet herders, guys who make, sell and buy credit card skimmers, hackers who steal credit card info, guys who run DDoS-for-hire sites, etc.
He uses aliases to get himself invited to underground forums, monitors them for as long as he can, then exposes the criminals. The bad guys are also improving their own security, and becoming more adept at turning the tables. One forum placed unique values in the "# of posts" listed in the left side column of their forum, then outed him when he posted a screenshot.
Needless to say, the people he is messing with are very annoyed at him. They are trying all the tricks they can to harass him remotely, such as ordering merchandise paid for on his credit cards, sending him unwanted (and now illegal) stuff, and using his credit cards to donate to charities. They've been trying to send him all the craziest, most annoying, most hazardous stuff they can without personally touching the merchandise themselves. The most dangerous stuff they have managed to send him so far was the SWAT van full of cops in a midnight raid. If these guys could get someone else to ship him a live cobra in a box, or a shit covered blasting cap, they wouldn't hesitate for a second.
While he may not be a "hero", Mr. Krebs has done some good work at cleaning up several of the nastier elements that infest the Internet. You get less spam in your in box thanks to him.
John
He looks pretty clean cut; that seems to go a long way with the police. From his history, it seems like the local police and him have a pretty intimate (and not adversarial) relationship. I think that helps quite a bit, too.
Repeat the situation with a mass-media stereotypical "hacker" and it would probably fit your description a little closer.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a youtube comments section scrolling - forever.
The police hate reports like this because they require huge resources to solve. Some guys in Russia ordered some drugs from the Farmers Market on Tor and paid with BitCoins. The seller presumably took steps to prevent them simply tracing the origin of the package. All the report does is add 1 to the unsolved drug crime stats for their area, making them look bad.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Cybercriminals HAS [sic] Heroin?
What is this, I Can Haz Slashdot?
OP here - all the typos are my fault and the editors didn't notice them.
No excuse, it was late and I was tired. I'll try to do better in future submissions. I did submit a working link - *that* I checked - no idea how it got screwed up...
Most drug dealing thugs look like (1 Thugs or 2) clean cut executives
Most Corporate thugs look like (1 Thugs or 2) Clean cut executives
Profiling 101
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
In the article it mentions a new name was set up "briankrebs7" and used to make the Silk Road purchase.
Further down in the screenshot it says in the upper right corner :
"Hi, briankrebs7"
It's a pretty important detail that he had control of this account and impressive that he was able to hack into it that quickly before the package arrived.
So it tells us a bit that the article doesn't. To what level has he pwn'd thecc.bz and how deeply does he get into these boards while investigating?
Would be funny if a spammer successfully charged him with hacking their servers. They could also claim that he set up the account and posted the whole thing on the forum after hacking their accounts to frame THEM.
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No, usually the cops have to plant the drugs themselves.
Most thugs arent drug dealers - they work for drug dealers.
That title is just embarrassing.
Either of these are correct:
Cybercriminals Have Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police
or
Cybercriminal Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police
Let's at least hold our submissions up to standards of English that we should have learned before leaving grammar school.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
Security researcher or enthusiast rule #1: if you're going to try and frame someone or whatever, don't fucking post about it on the public internet
Well gee whiz, now he has a "record" of this kind of thing happening, he can now order heroin, use stolen cc numbers - all kinds of things and just claim it was a setup.
I wonder if someday he'll "discover" a Swiss bank account number for an account filled with cash that some evil hacker "opened for him" in order to set him up.
Something is very fishy about this whole fucking thing, theres bullshit going on somewhere. All these evil hackers foregoing all this cash/cc numbers, etc etc and spending all this time and effort to "set him up" all for no real better reason than that he's annoying?
He has either seriously, materially fucked with someone in a way he is not disclosing or ~gasp~ much of this he set up himself or with acquaintances...now why would someone do that I wonder?
A manager came into my office one day and asked if I would change her phone number because someone had been making appointments in her name with her contact information for breast enlargement consultations with various surgeons. They were calling her to confirm the appointments once or twice a week for a couple months.
If this story is legit, then the dumbfuck Brian should get a misdemeanor for tampering with evidence. His blog is proof that he knows it's evidence, so ignorance (not even normally allowed anyway) is no excuse.
Who can send the craziest thing to Brian Krebs?"
It's all fun and games til somebody decides to send a shit covered blasting cap or who knows what else.
You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me. Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish. These fucking amateurs...
"Local police successfully intercept Heroin shipment"
"Police seize drugs worth $4000"
"Police thwart blackmail attempt"
"Police become fucking heroes of the night"
The police _love_ this sort of shit.
"Police become fucking heroes of the night"
This is Slashdot, not SlashFIC, take that to the proper forum.
Most drug dealers are Clean Cut Executive types (think Pharma)
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Heroin delivered BY police!
This sig is not paradoxical or ironic.
By golly! There's another Krebs Cycle!
Completely off topic, but so is this whole discussion:
Thanks to Pulp Fiction, I can not make a language choice during an install without saying "English, mother fucker! Do you speak it?"
Okay, that's all I've got.
It's "motherfucker" (an epithet and compound word) if, as is the case, let's say, 99.444% of the time, the intent is figurative and not meant to literally connote an incestious relationship. Cuz why would we not want to take this as far afield as is humanly possible and... squirrels!
Mates: CybercriminalS HAVE blah, blah, blah... :)
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