FBI agent Keith Mularski gave
an interview
yesterday to Elinor Mills. In the
interview he talks for the first time
about the background of the infamous
Darkmarket.ws sting operation.
Special Agent Mularski
worked undercover for two years, operating
a message forum for online criminals,
posing as one of them. The operation ended
last fall with 60 arrests around the
world.
The most famous arrest
to come out of this sting operation was
the arrest of �ağatay Evyapan in
Turkey. Mr. Evyapan, known online as
"cha0" was arrested in a raid by a
special unit of the Turkish police.
Here's a video of cha0's
arrest from our Security Wrapup:
The Darkmarket case has
received a lot of media coverage.
But
what did the actual site look like when it
was still operational?
For the
first time, we're now publishing a series
of screenshots taken of Darkmarket.ws.
We
took these pictures mostly in 2006 and
2007. They detail how this forum was used
to conduct all kinds of online crimes.
Login page of
Darkmarket.ws
Here's a user who
is interested in buying access to
3000-4000 infected machines a week.
"Get more $$$ for
your logs" - this user is advertising
cashing services for various banks, used
to steal money from online bank accounts.
Credentials for these accounts have been
stolen via keyloggers.
User 'aloaster' has
hacked several online shops. Now he's
selling administrator access to them.
Distributed-denial-of-service
attacks for sale. "This is a great deal on
DDOS attacks and cannot be beat by
anyone!"
200 "dove" stickers
for $1500. "Dove stickers" are VISA credit
card holograms.
