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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.
Ah, they finally shut down Sourceforge.
Wow, this was supposed to be impossible without back doors and broken encryption. How could these enforcement officers have managed to do this wonderful work without these government proposed back doors into encryption? By doing actual police work? Unimaginable!
"A hacker with his computer can steal more than a hundred men with guns."
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.
Judging by the low number of reactions here there must have been a significant number of Slashdot regulars among these 49...
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
I suppose that's one way of getting them out of their mother's basements
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.
Corporate lucre being stolen? Break out the task force! Consumers being hacked? Go fuck yourselves.
"The modus operandi used by this criminal group is the so-called man-in-the-middle and involved repeated computer intrusions against medium"
Doesn't sound like my understanding of a man-in-the-middle attack more like emailing the victims malware and persuading them to execute it.
This is hyped mostly to make the police-forces involved look good. In fact this will not really do anything to make the net more secure.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
This is simply theft.
Dude, it's on a computer. They're just moving 0s and 1s around. Bits just want to be free.
Are you some sort of Statist music industry SJW shill? Do you even hack bro?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it