[HN Gopher] Who got arrested in the raid on the XSS crime forum?
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Who got arrested in the raid on the XSS crime forum?
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 150 points
Date : 2025-08-06 12:14 UTC (4 days ago)
(HTM) web link (krebsonsecurity.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (krebsonsecurity.com)
| Hilift wrote:
| A 38-year-old Russian crime gang leader arrested in ... Kyiv,
| Ukraine.
|
| "The law enforcement action and resulting confusion about the
| identity of the detained has thrown the Russian cybercrime forum
| scene into disarray in recent weeks"
|
| I'm guessing "disarray" means payments not posting? Bonus pool
| depleted?
| hulitu wrote:
| > Russian crime gang leader arrested in ... Kyiv,
|
| It's funny how all Ukrainian criminals are Russians. /s
| TacticalCoder wrote:
| > It's funny how all Ukrainian criminals are Russians. /s
|
| I'm in Poland atm : it's funny how all criminals in Poland
| are Ukrainians /s
|
| (fwiw my mom is from Ukrainian roots and has one of those
| family names ending in "-enko" so chill out guys)
|
| Seriously though: lots of car theft here in Poland are cars
| being stolen and finding their way to Ukraine (and some to
| Russia).
| Jon_Lowtek wrote:
| there is a difference between "russian" and "russian
| speaking" that is quite important to many eastern europeans
| that do not wish to be part of some kreml lead lingua-nation.
| Noumenon72 wrote:
| Seems suspicious that part of the identity tracing chain is a
| sale to a user named "Honeypo" (honeypot).
| pinoy420 wrote:
| No it's to do with censorship of Pooh in china.
| Thorrez wrote:
| The article says that that post was likely a fake post created
| by Toha to throw off authorities:
|
| >It seems plausible that the BMW ad invoking Toha's email
| address and the name and phone number of a Russian citizen was
| simply misdirection on Toha's part -- intended to confuse and
| throw off investigators.
| vaylian wrote:
| > Since the Europol announcement, the XSS forum resurfaced at a
| new address on the deep web (reachable only via the anonymity
| network Tor).
|
| Should it not rather be "the dark web"?
| mananaysiempre wrote:
| The "dark web" is a journalistic (AFAICT) coinage arising from
| a confusion between two terms: a "darknet" (antonym:
| "clearnet") is a network that traverses the Internet in such a
| way that the Internet's routing infrastructure can't see the
| ultimate destination (Tor, but also DN42, your work VPN, etc.);
| the "deep web" is the part of the web that's not accessible to
| search engines and thus only really used by those who already
| know it exists (Tor hidden services, pirate libraries, private
| torrent trackers, but also every other registration-gated forum
| and arguably even Facebook Marketplace--the term is from a more
| innocent time with much fewer walled gardens).
| oezi wrote:
| Why would cyber-criminals (successful ones at least) dare living
| in Europe? Aren't there plenty of places out of reach for Europol
| and the FBI, etc.?
|
| Or is cyber-crime so unprofitable?
| yapyap wrote:
| I assume they just continue living where they lived before?
| aaron695 wrote:
| > Aren't there plenty of places out of reach for Europol and
| the FBI, etc.?
|
| There are a few problems with this question, but lets start
| with
|
| Where is "out of reach for Europol and the FBI"?
| oezi wrote:
| I mean I rarely read that they nab anyone outside of
| Europe/the US. But would have assumed the middle east, south
| east asia, post-soviet republics. If this guy is Russian
| speaking why not Russia?
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