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FBI Grows "Cyber Most Wanted" List With Syrian Electronic Army Members (networkworld.com)
coondoggie quotes a report from NetworkWorld: The FBI today added two members of a Syrian hacker group to its Cyber Most Wanted list, offering a reward of up to $100,000 each for information that leads to their arrest.
The article goes on to say, "According to the FBI, the new cybercriminals Amad Umar Agha22, known online as 'The Pro,' and Firas Dardar, 27, known online as 'The Shadow,' engaged in a multi-year conspiracy that began in 2011 to collect usernames and passwords that gave them the ability to deface websites, redirect domains to sites controlled by the conspirators, steal e-mail, and hijack social media accounts. To obtain the login information they spear-phishing, where they tricked people who had privileged access to their organizations' websites and social media channels into volunteering sensitive information by posing as a legitimate entity."
The article goes on to say, "According to the FBI, the new cybercriminals Amad Umar Agha22, known online as 'The Pro,' and Firas Dardar, 27, known online as 'The Shadow,' engaged in a multi-year conspiracy that began in 2011 to collect usernames and passwords that gave them the ability to deface websites, redirect domains to sites controlled by the conspirators, steal e-mail, and hijack social media accounts. To obtain the login information they spear-phishing, where they tricked people who had privileged access to their organizations' websites and social media channels into volunteering sensitive information by posing as a legitimate entity."
...to a "most wanted" list.
Defacing websites, redirecting domains, stealing e-mail, hijacking social media accounts, spear-phishing... aren't those things pretty much what every script kiddie does? Are all hazors now terrorists?
poor editing skills.
Will somebody please buy coondoggie a grammar-checker?
Much obliged.
Is this a joke, some kids deface websites, nothing of value to see here, moving on.
we'll see even more of this.
Because The Falcon & the Snowman and The Ghost & the Darkness were already taken?
Seriously, I could get behind a pair of would-be supervillains willing to take that next step and opt for ironic power names. Burps & the Slug, anyone...
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i'm not a fan of hackers but honestly, the NSA and FBI are much larger threats to our security. they have been and are actively trying to undermine the protection that encryption affords us. so how about we put the directors of the FBI and NSA at the top of that list?
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
I say the list is a fake. It doesn't have Tim Cook listed.
--sf
Just now.
Ouch...
Yeah, I'm sure extensive promotion of Assad's government had nothing to do with appearing on the FBI's most wanted list. I'm sure some minor extortion puts him in the same league as mass murderers, of which America has an ample supply.
Then I feel pretty safe.
Clinton is a square shooter. Clinton 2016!
The FBI ran a child porn site for a while last year...in order to catch child pornographers. Are the FBI agents behind that site on the list?