HACKERS! Sleeper Worm Awaken today. $45 Mil in damages
 

http://montreal.ctv.ca/cfcf/news/cfcf#news_19631

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Hacking hackers

Police across Quebec staged raids Wednesday, targetting computer hackers.
The raids come after a lengthy investigation by provincial police into the hackers' activities. Police say 17 hackers, aged 17-26, took control of a million computers around the world. Sixteen of them have been charged with illegal use of computers. One is at large. They face a maximum 10 year sentence. Police won't say if and by how much the thieves could have profited. They say they caused an estimated $45 million in damage.

Does anyone have anymore info on this!?!?!?

Ray

sweeet...

Those Quebecois. Good at CS, not so good at dodging police :D

What did they do with the computers? Spamming from a botnet?
WG

Fucking frogs...

What other reason is there for a botnet?

10 years in the hole is a slap on the wrist for those pricks

So what was the upside to this crime? What made it worth the risk? What was the payoff?

DOS attacks and extortion, amoung other things :(

youve been hax0rd

Infecting peoples machines with more shit, total control if desired, sell "traffic" to victims / sell "clicks" to unscrupulous webmasters (AdSense or other PPC), ... ... ...

From what I heard and read, here and there... there's a pretty strong underground/shady economy going on online. Lot's of shit happening.

You can rent botnets for pretty good monies.

[21:11] * Now talking in #hack.fr
[21:11] * Topic is 'Land of the SQ spies'
[21:11] * Set by phawnky on Wed Feb 20 19:14:32

I could see kids playing with a botnet for DOS attacks etc.. but the age group involved with this would have been about making bucket loads of money... I guess they could have set it up for "all of the above", but I would think the majority of it would have been for spam... yes? no?

Not sure, was not able to find more info. I?m sure more will come out tomorrow

Some top self news that are not out yet about that here

http://www.thatsnotsexy.com/

Down with the hackers and script kiddies

they will earn more money if they use their talent for good I'm I right guyz??

:Oh crap:Oh crap:Oh crap:Oh crap

Actually no, the bad guys always pay more.

You capitalists...

I used mine to take over more computers.. and so on...

Didnt check story but did they recover the cash or will it be sitting somewhere collecting interest and such waiting for them to get out. Unless of course the one on the run has access to it. Im guessing with that much loot exile in some non extradition country wouldnt be bad.

their is no money in botnets kids

:throwup

I chatted with a guy that was raided yesterday(the dude they were looking for was at his place). I am pretty sure it wasn't that much of a for profit operation.

quoted for truth

luke...come to the dark side my son