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Police warning after drug traffickers' cyber-attack
#18984809 - 10/16/13 04:28 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Police warning after drug traffickers' cyber-attack http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24539417
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The head of Europe's crime fighting agency has warned of the growing risk of organised crime groups using cyber-attacks to allow them to traffic drugs.
The director of Europol, Rob Wainwright, says the internet is being used to facilitate the international drug trafficking business.
His comments follow a cyber-attack on the Belgian port of Antwerp.
Drug traffickers recruited hackers to breach IT systems that controlled the movement and location of containers.
Police carried out a series of raids in Belgium and Holland earlier this year, seizing computer-hacking equipment as well as large quantities of cocaine and heroin, guns and a suitcase full of cash.
Fifteen people are currently awaiting trial in the two countries.
Mr Wainwright says the alleged plot demonstrates how the internet is being used as a "freelance marketplace" in which drug trafficking groups recruit hackers to help them carry out cyber-attacks "to order".
"[The case] is an example of how organised crime is becoming more enterprising, especially online," he says.
"We have effectively a service-orientated industry where organised crime groups are paying for specialist hacking skills that they can acquire online," he adds. Vanishing containers
The attack on the port of Antwerp is thought to have taken place over a two-year period from June 2011.
Prosecutors say a Dutch-based trafficking group hid cocaine and heroin among legitimate cargoes, including timber and bananas shipped in containers from South America.
The organised crime group allegedly used hackers based in Belgium to infiltrate computer networks in at least two companies operating in the port of Antwerp.
The breach allowed hackers to access secure data giving them the location and security details of containers, meaning the traffickers could send in lorry drivers to steal the cargo before the legitimate owner arrived.
Workers were first alerted to the plot when entire containers began to disappear from the port without explanation.
"These criminal organisations always look for a new way to get drugs out of the harbour," says Danny Decraene who heads the Antwerp organised crime unit of the Belgian Federal Police.
"In this case they hired hackers [who were] very high level, intelligent guys, doing a lot of software work," he adds.
He says the operation to hack the port companies took place in a number of phases, starting with malicious software being emailed to staff, allowing the organised crime group to access data remotely.
When the initial breach was discovered and a firewall installed to prevent further attacks, hackers broke into the premises and fitted key-logging devices onto computers.
This allowed them to gain wireless access to keystrokes typed by staff as well as screen grabs from their monitors. Assault rifle attack
Mr Decraene says the total quantity of drugs trafficked by the group is unknown, but in a series of raids earlier this year police seized more than a tonne of cocaine, with a street value of £130m, and a similar amount of heroin.
In January a lorry driver unconnected to the plot was shot at after he had unwittingly driven a container allegedly filled with cocaine from the terminal at Antwerp.
The attack took place in the province of Limburg, where suspects armed with AK-47 assault rifles fired at the driver, who was unharmed.
Following the cyber-attack in Antwerp, a joint operation by Belgian and Dutch police resulted in raids on more than 20 homes and businesses.
Officers seized six firearms including a machine gun and silencer, bullet-proof vests, and 1.3m euros (£1.1m) in cash inside a suitcase.
Mr Wainwright says the IT attack is consistent with a "new business model" of organised crime activity and he says he expects this kind of cyber-security breach to "become a more significant feature in future" of drug trafficking.
"What it means therefore is that the police need to change the way they operate - they have to become much more tech savvy," he says.
"But also I think governments and parliaments need to help us to make sure therefore that we have the right laws to fight back against this massive exploitation of the internet," he adds.
Container companies operating out of the port of Antwerp say their IT security has now been improved.
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Re: Police warning after drug traffickers' cyber-attack [Re: cycline]
#18985382 - 10/16/13 09:42 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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good idea
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Re: Police warning after drug traffickers' cyber-attack [Re: cycline]
#18985538 - 10/16/13 10:39 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Good, more people should be doing this. Jam up the nosy pigs' vision and fuck up their entire computer system. Fight the power.
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Re: Police warning after drug traffickers' cyber-attack [Re: Camwritesgonzo]
#18985697 - 10/16/13 11:21 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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:thumbs up: i approve
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Re: Police warning after drug traffickers' cyber-attack [Re: Camwritesgonzo] 2
#18985722 - 10/16/13 11:28 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Im sure govt will sadly try to use it as leverage to control the internet. The drug war allows them to make all kinds of silly laws and illegal searches they otherwise would hav no ground to implement
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Re: Police warning after drug traffickers' cyber-attack [Re: grimR]
#18986543 - 10/16/13 02:55 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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"What it means therefore is that the police need to change the way they operate - they have to become much more tech savvy," he says.
Or they could skip all the tech savvy bullshit and just legalize and regulate to put an end to these types of incidents.
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Re: Police warning after drug traffickers' cyber-attack [Re: SuperD]
#18987139 - 10/16/13 05:09 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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the day LSD gets easily produced there will be no Gov :-)
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Re: Police warning after drug traffickers' cyber-attack [Re: lessismore]
#18989288 - 10/17/13 01:03 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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mio said: the day LSD gets easily produced there will be no Gov :-)
I could not disagree more. Lsd is already widely available, and that fact has not hindered the government one bit. Mushrooms are cheap and easy to produce, and that has not hindered the government either.
Even if lsd was free, only a small percentage of people would take it.
People offer me free lsd all the time and I am usually like...no thanks I have stuff to do...
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Re: Police warning after drug traffickers' cyber-attack [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#18989665 - 10/17/13 06:43 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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It's just another one of those things people say that sound peachy on paper, but have no correlation to reality. He tends to do that a lot in this forum. If LSD were capable of changing the world in the capacity he's imagining, the world would already be a different place.
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Re: Police warning after drug traffickers' cyber-attack [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#18990624 - 10/17/13 12:00 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Alan Rockefeller said:
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mio said: the day LSD gets easily produced there will be no Gov :-)
I could not disagree more. Lsd is already widely available, and that fact has not hindered the government one bit. Mushrooms are cheap and easy to produce, and that has not hindered the government either.
Even if lsd was free, only a small percentage of people would take it.
People offer me free lsd all the time and I am usually like...no thanks I have stuff to do...
Well you must be special then. Are you sure it's even real LSD? Then again, when you're a celebrity such as Alan Rockefeller, I'm sure you can find real LSD. 
I personally haven't seen real LSD since the turn of the century. No joke.
That's not to say it's not out there. But in my neck of the woods, from what I've been able to tell, almost all of the blotter is 25i. There is an epidemic of that shit right now.
And while the comment you're responding to might, in reality be a bit extreme, and hyperbolic, I will point out to you that the highest levels of general public availability for LSD occurred from the mid 1960's up until.... IDK... somewhere in the early 70's? During which, I will point out, anti-war and anti-government sentiment seemed at an all time high.
So IMO while it may not be literally true, there may be some merit to the sentiment.
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Re: Police warning after drug traffickers' cyber-attack [Re: CidneyIndole]
#18992233 - 10/17/13 06:27 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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There sure is a lot of LSD around right now. If you look a couple news postings back the Avengers mentioned how much of a flood there has been in the last month or two.
Hey and the government DID shut down...coincidence maybe ?
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Re: Police warning after drug traffickers' cyber-attack [Re: ShroomDoom]
#18992514 - 10/17/13 07:23 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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1 application of LSD will make you see good from evil
transhumanism would be close if most people did LSD a few times 
there would be no use for a gov... for moral perfection would be achieved
but that also means that LSD removes a lot of our choices, so we are not as free as before
and we need a gov to take control of those who don't accept the program, those who run against the programming logic of moral perfection 
as long as we have thoughts we're never free , we just think we are
then the question is.. what is freedom? freedom to yourself, to fit into the gov?
the gov would need to consider that, freedom to be yourself is the most important
so there shouln't be any gov
Edited by lessismore (10/17/13 08:10 PM)
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