http://www.fbi.gov/page2/mar10/cyberintel030410.html
THE CYBER THREAT
Using Intelligence to Predict and Prevent
03/04/10
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III
On Thursday, the Director spoke for the first time at the RSA Conference. Stock photo.
Terrorists plotting and scheming anonymously online—and posting videos on how to build everything from backpack bombs to bio-weapons.
Spies, hired cyber mercenaries, and criminal syndicates worming their way into government networks, attempting to steal our nation’s most sensitive secrets.
Criminal hackers using seemingly innocuous information about a business and its employees to create highly-realistic yet bogus e-mails that can give them a back door into a company’s network and even a permanent window into everything it does.
On Thursday, FBI Director Robert Mueller talked about these and other cyber threats—along with how we are working with partners around the globe to tackle them—during a keynote address at the annual RSA computer security conference in San Francisco.
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The Director said that our intelligence indicates the threat of cyber terror is “real and rapidly expanding,” including the rise of extremist websites that recruit, radicalize, and incite violence.
Partners in Prevention
Last year, the FBI became aware of an emerging and potentially far-reaching cyber vulnerability involving automated banking transactions. How it played out from there is indicative of how we are using intelligence today to stay ahead of the curve in the fast-moving, infinitely complex world of cyber crime:
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Belgium: Police suspect PKK ran training camps
Twenty two people were detained in the Belgian raids. 14 have seen been freed, and the eight remaining put under arrest. It is not clear if PKK leaders Zubeyir Aydar and Remzi Kartal are among those arrested.
The arrests followed a three-year investigation. The prosecution says there is strong evidence that the PKK recruited (mostly) Kurdish youth and sent them to training camps in Belgium, Germany and other Western European countries for indoctrination. They also received military training in Greece and in eastern and northern Iraq in order to later fight the Turkish policy and army forces. The PKK is also charged of counterfeiting identity documents and for collecting money using violence and threats.
A hundred Kurds surrounded the Roj TV building in Denderleeuw, and impeded the raid on the place. Several dozen managed to break in in the afternoon. One police agent was injured and taken to hospital. The police managed to arrest several others, who were freed after the building occupiers agreed to leave. A water cannon was later brought in to force the protesters out of the parking lot.
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The PKK is calling all European Kurds to come to Brussels and demonstrate against the ‘hostile attack’ against them. The PKK said Belgium was using “state terror” aimed at “humiliating the Kurdish people”.
Police sought out high-profile Kurds in Belgium on Thursday as part of a Europewide investigation and Turkish sources said 15 arrests included ex-lawmakers.
The raids followed an announcement by France on Wednesday that nine Kurds were charged with terror offences following their arrest last week for allegedly recruiting fighters for the PKK separatist group.
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