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FBI, International Law Units Smash Infamous Hacker Bazaar Darkode

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-it-down dept.

coondoggie writes: The FBI in concert with Interpol and other worldwide law enforcement teams say they have taken down the international cybercriminal site marketplace Darkode and arrested 70 people involved with the site. Darkode was an online, password-protected forum in which hackers and other cyber-criminals convened to buy, sell, trade and share malware, ransomware, information, ideas, and tools to facilitate unlawful intrusions on others’ computers and electronic devices, the FBI said.

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  1. Hackers by farrellj · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not all Hackers are cyber criminals. Despite what CSI:Cyber might say.

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    1. Re:Hackers by CaptainDork · · Score: 2

      Not any remote controlled toy airplanes are drones, but put that one in the dictionary with hackers and move on.

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  2. Thought crime by nospam007 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The FBI goes after thoughtcrime, ideas and tools that _may_ be used to commit a crime who would have thought.

    How about guns?

  3. Re:More proof that the goverment hates competition by gweihir · · Score: 4, Funny

    Probably they wanted discounts and did not get them. Hence the take-down.

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  4. New tools needed by Varenthos · · Score: 2

    After Hacking Team got hacked and all of the exploits that they used became known and got patched, they just needed a new source for their "malware, ransomware, information, ideas, and tools to facilitate unlawful intrusions on others’ computers and electronic devices."

    When you can simply take what you want, you can't beat the price.

  5. This happened in my neighborhood. by xenotransplant · · Score: 2

    They arrested one of these guys in my area. This is of no real importance, just makes me shudder a little bit. Eric L. Crocker, aka Phastman, 39, of Binghamton, New York,