57 arrested in nationwide cyber crime strike week

[ahhming]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-uEriFIHA

Through a multi-agency effort, UK law enforcement made a spree of arrests this week, in what the National Crime Agency (NCA) is calli​ng a “cyber crime strike week.”

In all, 57 people were arrested between 2-6 March, charged with a plethora of computer related crimes, such as DDoS attacks, malware distribution, and theft of intellectual property. The largest operation busted 25 people in London and Essex, who are suspected of fraud and money laundering, accord​ing to the BBC.

Overseen by the NCA—essentially the UK’s FBI—the operations took place through England, Scotland, and Wales, and included officers from London’s Metropolitan Police, local Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs), and the NCA’s own National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU).

Cyber criminality including:-

- Network intrusion and data theft from multinational companies and government agencies,

- Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks

- Cyber-enabled fraud

- Malicious software and virus development

Source:

http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/news-listings/560-57-arrested-in-nationwide-cyber-crime-strike-week

[TheSLSAMG]

Good, assuming they were doing stuff that malicious, they probably deserve it.

[IP man]

Too bad the police didnt shoot them  <_<

[Admiral Naismith]

Too bad the police didnt shoot them  <_<

Why. Why would the police shoot them. Police should shoot when they have to, not when they can.

 

How did they trace them I wonder?

 

Edit-

Forgot to finish the bloody post.

[Bsmith]

Too bad the police didnt shoot them <_<

Dude wtf?! Yeah lets just shoot people because they did something wrong, right?

Also(edit):

theft of intellectual property

You could shoot atleast 50% of the forums roughly

[ObeseWalrus]

Now if they would throw those script kiddies into a ward or something I would be more happy.

[ahhming]

is http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/down for you guys?

 

seems slow

[zacRupnow]

I hope there's no fine print about torrents

[Trik'Stari]

Part of me hopes that it is not all of Lizard Squad, I was kind of hoping to see them make the console services look like giant wastes of money again.

[MrRavens]

Wooo! Go police! Get'em!

[Syntaxvgm]

Theft of intellectual property.......

[mr moose]

 

 

How did they trace them I wonder?

 

 

 

I have been pondering this for sometime now.  We always hear about anonymous and such groups that are elite tech users that can fly under the radar, find backdoors, hack whatever they want and stay invisible.  But the odds that the relevant authorities (NCA, NSA, FBI, ASIO, CBI etc) can't do the same are pretty slim.  Lets face it, they are better resourced, can use almost any method they like, aren't restricted to using 3rd party VPNs to hide their identity and literally can't get in trouble for doing their job.  It stands to reason that most of the authorities already know exactly who is doing what where and they are just waiting for the relevant laws and evidence to be acceptable in court before tacking them down.

[Admiral Naismith]

I have been pondering this for sometime now.  We always hear about anonymous and such groups that are elite tech users that can fly under the radar, find backdoors, hack whatever they want and stay invisible.  But the odds that the relevant authorities (NCA, NSA, FBI, ASIO, CBI etc) can't do the same are pretty slim.  Lets face it, they are better resourced, can use almost any method they like, aren't restricted to using 3rd party VPNs to hide their identity and literally can't get in trouble for doing their job.  It stands to reason that most of the authorities already know exactly who is doing what where and they are just waiting for the relevant laws and evidence to be acceptable in court before tacking them down.

 

Exactly. People make it sound so easy to remain anonymous on the internet using tor, vpns, linux, etc.. Yet stuff like this happens. I really doubt they all ****ed up and made a rookie mistakes. And, as you said, big-name hackers occasionally get caught. I find it doubtful that they weren't employing every available resource to remain hidden. Government resources are just better (if used correctly) than the ones at our disposal.

[mr moose]

Exactly. People make it sound so easy to remain anonymous on the internet using tor, vpns, linux, etc.. Yet stuff like this happens. I really doubt they all ****ed up and made a rookie mistakes. And, as you said, big-name hackers occasionally get caught. I find it doubtful that they weren't employing every available resource to remain hidden. Government resources are just better (if used correctly) than the ones at our disposal.

 

Sometimes I entertain the idea that the NSA, FBI et al, have a dynamic map of the internet,  able to trace anything through anything from one point to other.

[aeterna789]

Exactly. People make it sound so easy to remain anonymous on the internet using tor, vpns, linux, etc.. Yet stuff like this happens. I really doubt they all ****ed up and made a rookie mistakes. And, as you said, big-name hackers occasionally get caught. I find it doubtful that they weren't employing every available resource to remain hidden. Government resources are just better (if used correctly) than the ones at our disposal.

 

Probably why they get caught in the first place. Some of the very best hackers are even at times pardoned with the condition that they use their skills to develop better security for the Government.

 

[Admiral Naismith]

Sometimes I entertain the idea that the NSA, FBI et al, have a dynamic map of the internet,  able to trace anything through anything from one point to other.

Weren't they working on something like that? I could see them attempting something like that.

 

*tin foil hat* I've wondered if they have some trick up their sleeve. Some exploit or something that they can use without much of a risk of being detected, and only use sparingly to avoid drawing attention to it. This way they can pick-and-choose certain targets without drawing much suspicion.

 

edit-

 

 

Probably why they get caught in the first place. Some of the very best hackers are even at times pardoned with the condition that they use their skills to develop better security for the Government.

 

 

White Collar style, just instead of a thief it's hackers.

[Syntaxvgm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-uEriFIHA

Through a multi-agency effort, UK law enforcement made a spree of arrests this week, in what the National Crime Agency (NCA) is calli​ng a “cyber crime strike week.”

In all, 57 people were arrested between 2-6 March, charged with a plethora of computer related crimes, such as DDoS attacks, malware distribution, and theft of intellectual property. The largest operation busted 25 people in London and Essex, who are suspected of fraud and money laundering, accord​ing to the BBC.

Overseen by the NCA—essentially the UK’s FBI—the operations took place through England, Scotland, and Wales, and included officers from London’s Metropolitan Police, local Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs), and the NCA’s own National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU).

Cyber criminality including:-

- Network intrusion and data theft from multinational companies and government agencies,

- Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks

- Cyber-enabled fraud

- Malicious software and virus development

Source:

http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/news-listings/560-57-arrested-in-nationwide-cyber-crime-strike-week

Sound like what these government agencies do themselves. 

[mr moose]

Weren't they working on something like that? I could see them attempting something like that.

 

*tin foil hat* I've wondered if they have some trick up their sleeve. Some exploit or something that they can use without much of a risk of being detected, and only use sparingly to avoid drawing attention to it. This way they can pick-and-choose certain targets without drawing much suspicion.

 

edit-

 

 

 

White Collar style, just instead of a thief it's hackers.

 

To be honest I don't know,  A lot of how the net actually works (TOR, routing, etc) goes over my head.  I just look at what student hackers and internet worriors can do and assume that with superior resources the government can do better.

[Admiral Naismith]

To be honest I don't know,  A lot of how the net actually works (TOR, routing, etc) goes over my head.  I just look at what student hackers and internet worriors can do and assume that with superior resources the government can do better.

True, I know very little as well. I do know enough though that nothing ever works perfectly. No system is perfectly secure, no one is perfectly anonymous.

[Fusion]

Rip, I can't wait for more to be caught damn hackers.

[JAKEBAB]

All dat COMPUTER evidence in that bin lul. Why do people want hackers to get caught? There not all bad....

[Master Disaster]

#LizardSquad Offline

[mr moose]

All dat COMPUTER evidence in that bin lul. Why do people want hackers to get caught? There not all bad....

 

Most people only want the ones that are unnecessarily disrupting gaming.   However in the bigger picture the same can be said for politicians.