49 Suspected Members of Cybercriminal Group Arrested In Europe 23
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.
About time.. (Score:1, Funny)
Ah, they finally shut down Sourceforge.
Re: (Score:2)
Ah, they finally shut down Sourceforge.
Maybe those calls from Rachel with Cardholder Services will finally end!
Re:let the debates begin (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Re: (Score:2)
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?
Wow - impossible (Score:1, Funny)
To paraphrase Don Vito Corleone... (Score:2)
"A hacker with his computer can steal more than a hundred men with guns." [wikia.com]
Slashdot posters (Score:2)
Re:Slashdot posters (Score:4, Insightful)
Honestly, what's there to respond to?
Awesome, they arrested some of the many people using the internet to run scams. Woo hoo!
We're all safe! Oh, wait, not so much.
The guy claiming to be from the "Microsoft Service Provider", or the one claiming to lower my credit card, or the duct cleaning guys, or the free cruise ... these people still call me, and the internet is still full of spam and malware.
Other than a collective "good, but it's a drop in the bucket", did you expect us to declare a national holiday or something?
I suppose... (Score:1)
Buried Lede (Score:4, Insightful)
Corporate lucre being stolen? Break out the task force! Consumers being hacked? Go fuck yourselves.
The so-called man-in-the-middle .. (Score:2)
Doesn't sound like my understanding of a man-in-the-middle [owasp.org] attack more like emailing the victims malware and persuading them to execute it.
49 less script-kiddies will not make a difference (Score:2)
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.