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Who got arrested in the raid on the XSS crime forum?
oezi wrote 1 day ago:
Why 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?
aaron695 wrote 21 hours 55 min 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 wrote 15 hours 38 min ago:
I 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?
yapyap wrote 23 hours 51 min ago:
I assume they just continue living where they lived before?
vaylian wrote 1 day 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 wrote 1 day ago:
The “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).
Noumenon72 wrote 1 day ago:
Seems suspicious that part of the identity tracing chain is a sale to a
user named "Honeypo" (honeypot).
Thorrez wrote 1 day ago:
The 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.
pinoy420 wrote 1 day ago:
No it’s to do with censorship of Pooh in china.
Hilift wrote 1 day ago:
A 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?
EdwardDiego wrote 6 hours 24 min 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?
hulitu wrote 1 day ago:
> Russian crime gang leader arrested in ... Kyiv,
It's funny how all Ukrainian criminals are Russians. /s
Jon_Lowtek wrote 1 day ago:
there is a difference between "russian" and "russian speaking" that
is quite important to many eastern europeans that do not wish to be
part of some kreml lead lingua-nation.
TacticalCoder wrote 1 day ago:
> It's funny how all Ukrainian criminals are Russians. /s
I'm in Poland atm : it's funny how all criminals in Poland are
Ukrainians /s
(fwiw my mom is from Ukrainian roots and has one of those family
names ending in "-enko" so chill out guys)
Seriously though: lots of car theft here in Poland are cars being
stolen and finding their way to Ukraine (and some to Russia).
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