Canada: Quebec Police Bust Alleged Hacker Ring
A Canwest News Service article by Jan Ravensbergen, via The National Post, reports that:
Quebec provincial police said Wednesday they have dismantled what they called the largest and most damaging computer-hacking network ever uncovered in Canada.More here.
They collared 17 hacking suspects aged 17 to 26. All are male except for one, a 19-year-old woman.
"This is a new form of organized crime," [investigator Capt. Frederick Gaudreau] proclaimed to reporters summoned to SQ headquarters in Montreal.
Savvy youngsters who've grown up with computers can take advantage of lax or inattentive users connected via broadband to the Internet.
That's what this ring did, Capt. Gaudreau alleged, adding that its operators extended their electronic tentacles from some of Quebec's smaller towns to seize control, via sophisticated remote-access software, of almost a million computers in more than 100 countries.
posted by Fergie @ 2/20/2008 11:24:00 PM
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