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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday July 16 2015, @12:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-g-men-are-a'comin dept.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has shut down a "major computer hacking forum" called Darkode. The Darkode site now displays a banner with a message from the FBI, Department of Justice, and many foreign police agencies.

U.S. authorities working with law enforcement partners abroad have shut down the Darkode online forum used by cybercriminals around the world and charged 12 people linked to the site, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.

U.S. Attorney David Hickton announced the charges in Pittsburgh and called Darkode "a cyber hornet's nest of criminal hackers."

"Of the roughly 800 criminal Internet forums worldwide, Darkode represented one of the gravest threats to the integrity of data on computers in the United States," he said.

The Justice Department said the FBI and U.S. attorney's office in Pittsburgh led the investigation, known as Operation Shrouded Horizon. It included authorities from Europol and 20 countries in Europe and Latin America and included Israel, Nigeria and Australia.

12 individuals have been charged:

  • Johan Anders Gudmunds, aka Mafi aka Crim aka Synthet!c, 27, of Sollebrunn, Sweden.
  • Morgan C. Culbertson, aka Android, 20, of Pittsburgh.
  • Eric L. Crocker, aka Phastman, 39, of Binghamton, New York.
  • Naveed Ahmed, aka Nav aka semaph0re, 27, of Tampa, Florida.
  • Phillip R. Fleitz, aka Strife, 31, of Indianapolis.
  • Dewayne Watts, aka m3t4lh34d aka metal, 28, of Hernando, Florida.
  • Murtaza Saifuddin, aka rzor, 29, of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
  • Daniel Placek, aka Nocen aka Loki aka Juggernaut aka M1rr0r, 27, of Glendale, Wisconsin.
  • Matjaz Skorjanc, aka iserdo aka serdo, 28, of Maribor, Slovenia.
  • Florencio Carro Ruiz, aka NeTK aka Netkairo, 36, of Vizcaya, Spain.
  • Mentor Leniqi, aka Iceman, 34, of Gurisnica, Slovenia.
  • Rory Stephen Guidry, aka k@exploit.im, of Opelousas, Louisiana.

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  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday July 16 2015, @05:01AM

    by captain normal (2205) on Thursday July 16 2015, @05:01AM (#209818)

    c0lo, just how do you find this stuff? ...No I don't really want to know. I'm just relieved that you didn't put up a goatse link.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 16 2015, @05:10AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 16 2015, @05:10AM (#209823) Journal
    Human... are you telling me you know nothing about Heston Blumenthal [wikipedia.org]?
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    • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday July 16 2015, @05:26AM

      by captain normal (2205) on Thursday July 16 2015, @05:26AM (#209828)

      All I know is you posted a link to a guy behind a a day-glow green cat dick.

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      • (Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday July 16 2015, @05:50AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 16 2015, @05:50AM (#209834) Journal

        Well, that guy is Blumenthal, he's a chef that likes cooking in a sciency manner (and, very often, borderline shocking for the un-adventurous), has plenty of TV shows.

        In one episode of one show that I watched (heston's feasts [wikipedia.org], if my memory serves), he created that "day-glow green cat dick" as a desert dish.
        The episode might have been the "Roman banquet" and that piece might have been the "ejaculating cake", but I'm not very sure (the blurb about that episode on one TV station in Australia presents that episode as: "Ancient Roman cuisine meant theatrical, devious and orgasmic food.").

        Nope, google tells me that "day-glow green cat dick" is actually absinthe jelly, and it was served with earl grey ice cream and in the "Victorian banquet" (themed "Alice in Wonderland")

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