Good, but I'll bet for every one hacker arrested 1,000 are never caught.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Good, but I'll bet for every one hacker arrested 1,000 are never caught.

+1

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Arrests made

The page won't load, it must have been hacked.

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Don't be silly. It loads fine in the UK.

Blackshades

#10

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update..

FBI’s Huge Hacker Bust Could Be Bogus

Dozens have been arrested in a king-sized global hacker crackdown. But it’s unclear whether the charges against these supposed cyber criminals will actually stick.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/19/fbi-s-huge-hacker-bust-could-be-bogus.html

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update..

FBI’s Huge Hacker Bust Could Be Bogus

Dozens have been arrested in a king-sized global hacker crackdown. But it’s unclear whether the charges against these supposed cyber criminals will actually stick.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/19/fbi-s-huge-hacker-bust-could-be-bogus.html

Huh... intriguing. Thanks Lynn :)

From the report:

But unlike most commercially available RATs, Blackshades was promoted and packaged as a spying tool, much like Hacking Team’s DaVinci and Gamma’s Finfisher programs, controversial software packages marketed for unauthorized control of someone else’s computer.

While Hacking Team and Gamma claim to only sell to governments, Blackshades was available to anyone, costing 150 Euros for their Gold product.

In a way, Blackshades was democratizing the same tools available to wealthy nations to poor ones and normal people.

Blackshades is only one of many remote access tools. Dozens are available in the black and gray market, as wall as being marketed more normally to remote workers and worried parents. If purchasing or downloading remote access software is grounds for a search warrant or arrest, the civil liberties implications are worrying.

The software typically infects computers when people click on external links on social networking sites and in emails that purport to lead to pictures, videos or other items of interest, said the NCA.

People who clicked the links should have their computers confiscated and be sent to "reeducation camps".

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