Pakbugs was a Pakistani-based security forum offering security releases updates, discussion of hacking, credit card fraud, phishing and other forms of computer crime; as well as trading in malware, bank login details and stolen credit card numbers.[1] The forum was shut down after multiple raids by Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency on its members in 2010, in which five individuals were arrested, with the alleged founder suspected to remain at large in Riyadh.[1][2]
In addition to being a crime forum, PAKbugs was also the nomenclature of a group, used by individuals on numerous occasions to claim responsibility and attribution for defacement of several high-profile Web sites.[3]
Also, the forum offered resources and courses to pen-testing, programming and a lot of IT subjects, from beginner to advanced. A lot of users were registered to learn about programming, security, software engineering.
The forum re-emerged in 2013 and was responsible for hacking and defacing .pk domains, along with the Google Saint Helena, Google Uganda and Google Morocco websites. The group also defaced websites of five major Pakistani banks besides and a few Indian and Middle Eastern banks.
Further reading
edit- Warner, Gary (12 July 2010). "PakBugs Hackers arrested". CyberCrime & Doing Time.
- Constantin, Lucian (21 September 2009). "Online Vigilante Hacks Carding-Forum DatabaseOnline Vigilante Hacks Carding-Forum Database". Softpedia.com.
References
edit- ^ a b "Facebook for hackers shut down in Pakistan • The Register". The Register.
- ^ Carvell, Andy (13 July 2010). "Pakistan hacker forum Pakbugs busted". geek.com. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on 16 July 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
- ^ Constantin, Lucian (12 July 2010). "Notorious Website Defacers Arrested in Pakistan". Softpedia. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
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