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Who got arrested in the raid on the XSS crime forum?
- brcmthrowaway 1y ago[flagged]
- bretpiatt 1y agoHe's been a target numerous times https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Krebs#Career https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Krebs#Career Thankful he's willing to continue on the mission.
- pingou 1y ago"An article by Krebs on 27 March 2018 on KrebsOnSecurity.com about the mining software company and script "Coinhive" where Krebs published the names of admins of the German imageboard pr0gramm, as a former admin is the inventor of the script and owner of the company, was answered by an unusual protest action by the users of that imageboard. Using the pun of "Krebs" meaning "Cancer" in German, they donated to charitable organisations fighting against those diseases, collecting more than 200,000 Euro of donations until the evening of 28 March to the Deutsche Krebshilfe charity". I approve of this kind of retaliation.
- Hilift 1y agoA 38-year-old Russian crime gang leader arrested in ... Kyiv, Ukraine. "The law enforcement action and resulting confusion about the identity of the detained has thrown the Russian cybercrime forum scene into disarray in recent weeks" I'm guessing "disarray" means payments not posting? Bonus pool depleted?
- hulitu 1y ago> Russian crime gang leader arrested in ... Kyiv, It's funny how all Ukrainian criminals are Russians. /s
- Etheryte 1y ago[flagged]
- vasachi 1y agoAh yes, because only Russians can be criminals. And also Russians cannot be born in Eastern Europe.
- anticodon 1y agoCan you tell a Russian from Ukrainian? Can you even tell an Ukrainian name from Russian name?
- hiciu 1y agoWow. Can you tell a Korean person from Chinese person? Polish name from a Czech one? Different cultures, different languages, it's obvious to the locals.
- anticodon 1y ago[flagged]
- perching_aix 1y agoThankfully, people living on the east are completely immune to ethnic stereotypization and propaganda, like you clearly demonstrate. They even get to have their own opinions. Oh the wonders of geography and lineage.
- anticodon 1y agoLOL. Have you ever read what Ukrainians said in the last 35 years? Not some pretty recital from CNN, ABC, BBC, DW, but actual words said and written by actual Ukrainians? Or, for that matter, have you ever read Reddit? I'm 100% sure that if I open any subreddit like /r/politics, in the first 10 posts there will be something like "burn all Russians", "we must nuke Russia", "Russian are subhumans and they must be eliminated from Earth". Such phrases are so pervading there that I stopped visiting reddit even for reading technical subreddits. BTW, Reddit moderators never ban users for calling to kill Russians (also, in 2022 Meta openly said it is ok to say such things openly, just to note that nazism is welcome in the West, or to be precise, it never went away and it wasn't an invention of Hitler).
- EdwardDiego 1y ago> A 38-year-old Russian crime gang leader arrested in ... Kyiv, Ukraine. That tracks. How many Russian cybercriminals can you think of who were arrested in Russia? Hence why a lot of malware checks for your keyboard's language - so the payload doesn't deploy in Russia, which _would_ actually get you arrested. But if you're targeting people outside Russia, you're golden. As for why he's in Kyiv? Maybe his girlfriend is from there. Maybe he prefers Kyiv to Moscow or whichever oblast he's from. Maybe he's hiding from the Russian draft?
- Noumenon72 1y agoSeems suspicious that part of the identity tracing chain is a sale to a user named "Honeypo" (honeypot).
- pinoy420 1y agoNo it’s to do with censorship of Pooh in china.
- Thorrez 1y agoThe article says that that post was likely a fake post created by Toha to throw off authorities: >It seems plausible that the BMW ad invoking Toha’s email address and the name and phone number of a Russian citizen was simply misdirection on Toha’s part — intended to confuse and throw off investigators.
- vaylian 1y ago> Since the Europol announcement, the XSS forum resurfaced at a new address on the deep web (reachable only via the anonymity network Tor). Should it not rather be "the dark web"?
- mananaysiempre 1y agoThe “dark web” is a journalistic (AFAICT) coinage arising from a confusion between two terms: a “darknet” (antonym: “clearnet”) is a network that traverses the Internet in such a way that the Internet’s routing infrastructure can’t see the ultimate destination (Tor, but also DN42, your work VPN, etc.); the “deep web” is the part of the web that’s not accessible to search engines and thus only really used by those who already know it exists (Tor hidden services, pirate libraries, private torrent trackers, but also every other registration-gated forum and arguably even Facebook Marketplace—the term is from a more innocent time with much fewer walled gardens).
- oezi 1y agoWhy would cyber-criminals (successful ones at least) dare living in Europe? Aren't there plenty of places out of reach for Europol and the FBI, etc.? Or is cyber-crime so unprofitable?
- yapyap 1y agoI assume they just continue living where they lived before?
- aaron695 1y ago> Aren't there plenty of places out of reach for Europol and the FBI, etc.? There are a few problems with this question, but lets start with Where is "out of reach for Europol and the FBI"?
- oezi 1y agoI mean I rarely read that they nab anyone outside of Europe/the US. But would have assumed the middle east, south east asia, post-soviet republics. If this guy is Russian speaking why not Russia?
- Ros23 1y ago... and it's 403 error from Tor. And no .onion site. LOL