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49 Suspected Members of Cybercriminal Group Arrested In Europe
An anonymous reader writes: A joint international operation led to the arrests of 49 suspected members of a cybercriminal group in Europe. The operation involved law enforcement agencies from several different nations, including Italy, Spain, Poland, Belgium, Georgia, and the UK. Police searched 58 separate properties, seizing laptops, hard disks, telephones, tablets, credit cards and cash, SIM cards, memory sticks, forged documents and bank account documents. The criminals came to the attention of police after repeatedly initiating man-in-the-middle attacks against European companies, using intrusions and social engineering to route corporate payments to their own bank accounts.
Who would side with criminals? This isn't script kiddies or freedom of speech protests. It isn't even the search for aliens or nude pictures of celebrities.
This is not people who say 'you left a security hole open so I used it, here's what you can do to fix it'. This is people who say, you have a security hole, or I'm going to make one for you, and now I'm going to also steal your money.
This is simply theft. It's as if they stole the snail mail from these businesses that contained payment checks and forged their names as the recipient and cashed them. That it was done via an electronic MITM is just a detail.
There are lots of places that condone thievery/criminal activity. I suppose the AC of /. could be one of them, but generally I think /. still understand the difference between the actions of hackers and the actions of criminals.