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."

Comments

Re:WTH is Brian Krebs?!

[Anonymous Coward]

...And why is an article with a broken link featuring on the /. homepage? Are the moderators drunk?

No, but they did recieve a small brown package in the mail this morning...

Re:Krebs is a scam.

[Anonymous Coward]

He has uncovered the Anti-vovick conspiracy! Quick everyone look like you were doing something else...

Lord Krebs commands it!

GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY

[korbulon]

This is obviously yet another blatant attempt by the federal government to discredit a real American hero. Not convinced? Look at the facts:

1. Heroin is known by several street names, including (but not limited to) smack, dope, junk, brown sugar, and WHITE HORSE
2. "Brian" is an Irish-Breton name meaning 'High'.
3. Krebs is German for 'Cancer', but in a pinch can also mean 'Crab'
4. 'Crab' has four letters. Four in German is 'vier', which when pronounced sounds like 'fear' in English.
5. In July of 1963 a little-known top-secret project sanctioned by the CIA was started, which studied - among other things - the effects of illicit drugs on sea-faring crustaceans. The name of this project was Operation Dungeness. Among the members of the research team was - you guessed it - a German scientist of dubious political background, last name of Krabbe.
6. As the Dungeness scientists became deranged with drugs and power, their range of test subjects expanded from sea-faring crustaceans to rodents and finally to small orphan children
7. These orphas were harvested from foster homes and from the streets,to become nameless waifs, but one of these orphan children was nicknamed Brian Krebs ('High Crab') - a sick joke of the scientists
8. One dark and stormy night a lightning strike knocked out the main power transformer suppling power to the underground lab. In the ensuing chaos, Krebs escaped, but during the escape he was bitten by a radioactive sea-faring crustacean, and it left a mark in the shape of a 'K' on his outer right thigh
9. Armed with the truth, Krebs reached an uneasy truce with government goons, keeping them at bay - for now. But behind the scenes he wages a one man crusade against the mad CIA scientists who subjected him to a wide range of inhumane experiments as a nameless waif. Masquerading as a security expert, he uses his contacts in the underground to uncover evidence which will one day bring the perpetrators to justice.
10. But the government does not stand idly by: knowing that direct confrontation is out of the question, it instead opts for a campaign of slander, defamation, and sabotage. This latest attempt to deliver illicit drugs is not simply meant to defame and criminalize Krebs, it is a message. And that message is: "We are coming for you."

I could go on and on, but I believe these facts speak for themselves.

Re:Krebs is a scam.

[Chrisq]

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.

I posted a suggestion to the Pope on how to run the Catholic church and he never approved the comment. This proves he's a fake, right?

Re:Asshole blogger can has publicity stunt

[Niggle]

"Who can send the craziest thing to Brian Krebs?"

A bobcat? http://xkcd.com/325/