Most wanted cybercriminal by the FBI is also responsible for spying on the US government

One of the most notorious cybercriminal who uses the alias Slavik is also linked with the Russian espionage of the US government agencies. Slavik is one of the ‘Most Wanted’ cybercriminal by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In the summer last year, Slavik, whose real name is Evgeniy Bogachev was linked with infecting thousands of computers around the world with his botnet ‘Gameover Zeus’. The cyber gang that Slavik operated siphoned of millions of dollars from around the world through several cybercrime attacks using the botnet created by Slavik.

This included theft of over US$ 100 million from several banks from around the world and US$ 27 million in ransom. The gang used several methods such as the phishing attacks, online extortion of money, various types of online scams, fraudulent money making scheme and other such methods to steal the bank account details of thousands of people. They also infected computers of over 250,000 people around the world and demanded ransom to be paid for releasing control over their computers. This is how they collected over US$ 27 million in ransom. This malware was termed as the Cryptolocker Ransomware.

The network was eventually brought down in June 2014 after FBI and the United States Justice Department partnered with several law enforcement agencies from several nations in a bid to bring down this notorious network of cybercriminals and hunt down their kingpin Evgeniy Bogachev alias Slavik. Once the cryptolocker of Slavik was shut down and further investigations were conducted, it was identified that Slavik and his gang as well as his clients were hunting for information about government agencies of several countries including US.

It is believed that Slavik was doing this on the behest of the Russian government. A bounty of US$ 3 million has been announced on information that will lead to the arrest of Slavik.

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by Malik korrich ~ samedi 15 août 2015 0 commentaires

FBI arrests the hacker who was its own informant

In a bizarre incident, the FBI has arrested 70 hackers in an operation to bust a hacking forum. Out of the 12 Americans against whom the charges were filed, one of them is actually an informant who worked with the FBI to help them gain access to the hackers’ forum.

The operation is termed to be the largest till date and involved bringing down a forum named Darkode. It is an online forum protected by passwords and was used as a medium by hackers to sell sensitive information such as the passwords, tools and methods to hack computers as well as was used to share and sell malware applications.

Darkode, according to the authorities is the largest malware sharing forum in the world and involved trading of botnets. Botnets are the computers that are infected with the malware and the access to these computers are sold to hackers who can then become botnet operators by acquiring the access to these computers. The operation to bring down Darkode was christened ‘Operation Shrouded Horizon’ and was initiated a year and half ago. Rory Stephan Guidry, a 28 year old man from Louisiana has worked with the FBI in the past and hence he was approached by the FBI to help them bust Darkode.

The process to become a member of the forum required hackers to be invited by an existing forum member after which the invited members had to display their hacking skills. To prove his efficiency and to gain the trust of other forum members, Guidry stole the botnet of Lizard Squad that brought down PlayStation and Xbox live networks on the Christmas Day last year. Guidry supplied this code to the forum to gain their trust and get onto the inside from where he helped the FBI.

Despite this, Guidry himself was charged and arrested by the FBI claiming that that he shared malware and allowed the other forum members to gain an access to the botnet. Despite working for the interests of the FBI, Guidry is behind the bars and this will deter other hackers in the future to trust the federal agencies such as the FBI.

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Cop arrested for hacking into FBI and NYPD databases

New York Police Department Auxiliary Deputy Inspector Yehuda Katz has been arrested and charged for the offence of hacking into the traffic databases of NYPD and FBI with the intent of stealing the data pertaining to the victims of traffic accidents in order to defraud them.

Katz who was assigned to the 70^th Precinct in Brooklyn secretly installed several electronic devices in NYPD’s traffic safety office. This allowed him to remotely access the database of NYPD. There has been a similar charge of gaining an unauthorized access to the FBI database by installing a device with a hidden camera capable of capturing live images. According to the United States Attorney Lynch, Katz used his position to obtain personal information pertaining to the victims of the accidents and defraud them for his personal gains. Katz has been accused of running 6400 queries into the databases of FBI and NYPD through the remote access from the devices installed by him.
He is further accused of posing as a lawyer representing a fictitious firm ‘Katz & Katz Law Firm’ and sent letters to the victims of the traffic accidents. He is alleged to have communicated to them that his firm will help these victims with settling of their claims and in turn the law firm would charge 14 percent of the claim settlement value as the fees. He assured the victims that the claims will definitely be settled in their favor and his firm will assist them in their clam settlements.
Katz faces up to ten years in prison for stealing confidential information of accident victims and trying to cheat the victims by posing as a fake lawyer.

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by Malik korrich ~ samedi 21 mars 2015 0 commentaires

How to get your computer to have an FBI login screen

1) Download LogonStudios (It's Vista version but if you have Windows 7 it works)

Code:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I8DIQ2YN

For xp users:

Code:

http://www.stardock.com/products/logonstudio/downloads.asp

2) You can download the FBI file here

Code:

http://www.wincustomize.com/explore/logonstudio_xp/9606/

Or

Code:

http://skins19.wincustomize.com/24/79/2479496/26/9859/preview-26-9859.jpg

Optional 3) The switch user button was annoying me so i downloaded this to remove it (I'm the only one on my computer so i doubt ill miss it)

Code:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8N0EGIW4

Start it up, then open it and it'll do the rest

For the users that want their 'switch user' button back download this:

Code:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AA5V5SFQ

Just run the file and it will return your button.

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by Malik korrich ~ jeudi 29 septembre 2011 0 commentaires