The Owner of World's Largest Hacker Forum Has Been Arrested

erek said:
Busted.

"In this video I discuss the arrest of pompompurin and what it means for the future of breached, the worlds most popular hacking forum."

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/politics/fbi-breach-forums-conor-fitzpatrick/index.html

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That's great and all, but they need to start bringing consequences to the small guys not just the site founders.

US law enforcement agents have gotten increasingly adept at quietly infiltrating cybercriminal forums and collecting intelligence to feed indictments or arrests.

In the demise of RaidForums, US authorities had access to the website’s computer infrastructure for several months before the seizure was announced, a law enforcement official familiar with the matter previously told CNN.
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Hopefully they have been monitoring and tracing those who have been using and accessing the stolen data and will swoop in and arrest and charge as many of them as possible.

These things are supply and demand, and the small guys are the demand. UNless you do something to discourage the small guys sense of impunity, it's going to be whack-a-mole with one after another of these stupid sites popping up.
 
Like Steve Garrett was so fond of saying: "Book 'em, Dano", hehehe :)

But yea, da fedz definitely need to "follow da money/data" to go after the other folks involved in this activity !
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
That's great and all, but they need to start bringing consequences to the small guys not just the site founders.
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Good luck with that. A lot of those small guys aren't in America and Europe where these consequences can be easily applied.
Hopefully they have been monitoring and tracing those who have been using and accessing the stolen data and will swoop in and arrest and charge as many of them as possible.
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These things are supply and demand, and the small guys are the demand. UNless you do something to discourage the small guys sense of impunity, it's going to be whack-a-mole with one after another of these stupid sites popping up.
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This is why punishing one guy doesn't work. Like someone already said, take one down and three pop up. Maybe the problem isn't the small guys but the lack of supply for their demand? A lot of this can be traced to small guys who just want more access to their devices they own. One thing leads to another and the same tools used to get access to your device is also used to get your grandma's bank account info. The way we do security now is through obscurity, which is the less you know the more secure it is. Except this also applies to the people on top of a corporation who will cut costs on security if it meant a bigger win for their shareholders. There's always that one guy in some obscure country that barely has an internet connection that is hacking a billion dollar corporation because the IT staff hasn't done a security update in months.
 
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