Cybercrime Supersite 'DarkMarket' Was FBI Sting, Documents Confirm

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Via Threat Level.

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DarkMarket.ws, an online watering hole for thousands of identify thieves,
hackers and credit card swindlers, has been secretly run by an FBI
cybercrime agent for the last two years, until its voluntary shutdown
earlier this month, according to documents unearthed by a German radio
network.

Reports from the German national police obtained by the Südwestrundfunk,
Southwest Germany public radio, blow the lid off the long running sting by
revealing its role in nabbing a German credit card forger active on
DarkMarket. The FBI agent is identified in the documents as J. Keith
Mularski, a senior cybercrime agent based at the National Cyber Forensics
Training Alliance in Pittsburgh, who ran the site under the hacker handle
Master Splynter.

The NCFTA is a non-profit information sharing alliance funded by financial
firms, internet companies and the federal government. It's also home to a
seven-agent FBI headquarters unit called the Cyber Initiative and Resource
Fusion Unit, which evidently ran the DarkMarket sting.

The FBI didn't return a phone call Monday.

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More:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/darkmarket-post.html

- - ferg

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