http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4168
“The Next Generation of Terror”
By Marc Sageman
March/April 2008
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SNIPPET: “When British police broke down Younis Tsouli’s door in October 2005 in a leafy west London neighborhood, they suspected the 22yearold college student, the son of a Moroccan diplomat, of little more than having traded emails with men planning a bombing in Bosnia. It was only after they began examining the hard drive on Tsouli’s computer that they realized they had stumbled upon one of the most infamous—and unlikely—cyberjihadists in the world.
Tsouli’s online username, as they discovered, was Irhabi007 (“Terrorist007” in Arabic). It was a moniker well known to international counterterrorism officials. Since 2004, this young man, with no history of radical activity, had become one of the world’s most influential propagandists in jihadi chatrooms.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/organized_crime_embraces_net/
“The rise of the Malware Mafia”
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
Published Friday 11th April 2008 21:19 GMT
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Cyber crime is no longer the province of teenage hackers holed up in their parents’ basement, but rather an enterprise that’s been co-opted into the most hardened and powerful organized crime families. He cataloged some of the better-known examples including:
Dmitry Golubov, a Ukrainian alleged to be an original member of Carderplanet, an online clearinghouse for people engaged in the theft of credit and debit card information. He was arrested in 2006, but his case languished after two members of the Ukrainian parliament intervened on his behalf. He recently founded the Internet Party of Ukraine.
Younis Tsouli, who last year was convicted by UK authorities for inciting acts of terrorism. Tsouli frequently distributed propaganda videos for Al-Qaeda by hosting them on computers he had hijacked, Alperovich said. He frequently engaged in online credit card theft as a means to support his activities.
Maxim Yamstremsky, who was arrested last year for allegedly selling large amounts of credit card numbers that were stolen from the network of US retailing giant TJX. He was selling card data in batches of 10,000, and was charging $20 to $100 per card.”