United States Leads Seizure of One of the World’s Largest Hacker Forums and Arrests Administrator | OPA | Department of Justice

Court records unsealed today indicate that the United States recently obtained judicial authorization to seize three domains that long hosted the RaidForums website. These domains were “raidforums.com,” “Rf.ws,” and “Raid.lol.” According to the affidavit filed in support of these seizures, from in or around 2016 through February 2022, RaidForums served as a major online marketplace for individuals to buy and sell hacked or stolen databases containing the sensitive personal and financial information of victims in the United States and elsewhere, including stolen bank routing and account numbers, credit card information, login credentials and social security numbers.

“The takedown of this online market for the resale of hacked or stolen data disrupts one of the major ways cybercriminals profit from the large-scale theft of sensitive personal and financial information,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “This is another example of how working with our international law enforcement partners has resulted in the shutdown of a criminal marketplace and the arrest of its administrator.”

“Our interagency efforts to dismantle this sophisticated online platform – which facilitated a wide range of criminal activity – should come as a relief to the millions victimized by it, and as a warning to those cybercriminals who participated in these types of nefarious activities,” said U.S. Attorney Jessica D. Aber for the Eastern District of Virginia. “Online anonymity was not able to protect the defendant in this case from prosecution, and it will not protect other online criminals either.”

Source: United States Leads Seizure of One of the World’s Largest Hacker Forums and Arrests Administrator | OPA | Department of Justice

People, people, people

Dreams of Digging

Some of my learnings this week:

• #1

The first two episodes of “Servant of the People” (‘Слуга народу’) are really, really funny.

This is a charming TV series from 2015-2019 that follows the story of a straight-laced high school History teacher in Ukraine named Vasily Goloborodko. Just before the country’s election, he goes on an expletive-filled rant to a colleague about the corrupt nature of all the politicians in Ukraine. One of his students secretly films him and uploads the video to YouTube. The virality of his foul-mouthed tirade catapults Goloborodko to meteoric popularity and Ukrainian Presidency.

Overnight, he is transformed from an ordinary broke guy, worrying over fines of 17 Ukrainian Hyrvnia ($0.77 AUD), to a President living a life of exaggerated opulence and where everyone fawns over him and his family.

The show was produced and starred by none other than the real Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy

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Turkish Tuesdays, and Two Lessons Hakan:Muhafiz/The Protector, s1e10 Teaches About Those Without Empathy

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What do we learn from season 1, episode 10?  Never trust someone who has no empathy.

Lessons:
1.) Never trust what your enemy tells you: there’s something behind it.
2.) Never trust someone who orders you to contradict your orders.
Exactly, Zeynep: you have no idea what using the blood of the olumsuzler will do to Leyla, if it does heal her.
Again touching antiquities without gloves!!
So, finally, that other door…
Ah, so the trained Sadik Onlari has a plan, but so does the guy who’s lived for hundreds of years.
Things don’t go as either plan.

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My Journal #atozchallenge #Odessa #Ukraine #fiction

penned in moon dust

I hope the science guy can explain the portal cause it’s complicated. One time I can come across at the same point but now I have to go to a different clock and come thorugh the back way at 9 am. Right now I’m in 1991. I think this going back and forth is going to make my head spin. My husband is with Vlad. I’m glad we can help … I am happy to have such a well- stocked first aid storage.

I wrote a few more details in my journal before I stored it away. If I ever got back to a normal place in life, I want to remember as much about 1991 as possible.

My husband entered the room and we knew we had to tell each other everything we had learned or seen in double time before we returned across the portal. Too soon we…

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Sônia Guajajara proclama « ¡No retrocederemos! » ¡Mientras los pueblos Indígenas se reúnen en la capital brasileña para una manifestación para defender sus derechos territoriales!  — Barbara Crane Navarro

En oposición a la PL191, un proyecto de ley del gobierno en el Congreso que permitiría las industrias extractivas en sus resguardos, 8.000 personas en representación de más de 200 naciones Indígenas de muchas partes del país se reúnen en Brasilia para la movilización del Campamento Tierra Libre y 10 días de acción en apoyo […]

Sônia Guajajara proclama « ¡No retrocederemos! » ¡Mientras los pueblos Indígenas se reúnen en la capital brasileña para una manifestación para defender sus derechos territoriales!  — Barbara Crane Navarro

Illegal Gold Rush Is Squeezing Native People in Brazil’s Amazon – Bloomberg — Barbara Crane Navarro

Illegal gold mining camp in Yanomami Indigenous Territory – photo: Bruno Kelly Illegal Gold Rush Is Squeezing Native People in Brazil’s Amazon – Bloomberg https://ift.tt/zTF4trR Illegal Gold Rush Is Squeezing Native People in Brazil’s Amazon  Bloomberg Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/BTMJ3tf Illegal Gold Rush Is Squeezing Native People in Brazil’s Amazon – Bloomberg —

Illegal Gold Rush Is Squeezing Native People in Brazil’s Amazon – Bloomberg — Barbara Crane Navarro

Assista a “Ouro de Sangue: para onde vai o ouro ilegal garimpado na Amazônia?” no YouTube — Mágica Mistura✨ — Barbara Crane Navarro

A barbárie não têm limites. A ganância também não. No Brasil de 2022 o Governo Bolsonaro trata com negligência e descaso a destruição da Amazônia, e com desdém o desespero dos indígenas. 11 more words Assista a “Ouro de Sangue: para onde vai o ouro ilegal garimpado na Amazônia?” no YouTube — Mágica Mistura✨

Assista a “Ouro de Sangue: para onde vai o ouro ilegal garimpado na Amazônia?” no YouTube — Mágica Mistura✨ — Barbara Crane Navarro

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak to be fined over lockdown parties – BBC News

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Chancellor Rishi Sunak and the PM’s wife Carrie Johnson will be fined by the police for breaking lockdown laws.

Officials confirmed the three had received notification from the Metropolitan Police that they would be given fixed penalty notices.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak must resign.

The Met is investigating alleged Covid law-breaking at 12 gatherings in Whitehall and Downing Street.

So far, more than 50 fines have been handed out.

The police said they would not be naming all of those who received the fines, but the government had promised to reveal if Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak were among them.

Source: Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak to be fined over lockdown parties – BBC News