FBI Grows "Cyber Most Wanted" List With Syrian Electronic Army Members (networkworld.com) 18
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."
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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?
Apparently on par with terrorist bombing. Because, you know, defacing websites kills civility.
The Sirius Cybernetic Army strikes again :) (Score:1)
Always with these cool nicknames (Score:2)
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...
the NSA and FBI are worse (Score:4, Insightful)
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?
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