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July 7, 2010 will be remembered as the beginning of a fearful period in their lives. On that day, Mr. Shahid Nadeem Baloch, the Director of Cyber Crime Investigations for the Federal Information Agency announced the arrest of five ring leaders of the popular hacker forum "PAKBugs" in this release from the Press Information Department. Among those praised by FIA's Director General, Mr. Zafar Ullah Khan, for their roles in the investigation are Mr. Muhammad Idress Mian, who directs the National Response Center for Cyber Crimes (NR3C), Mr. Muhammad Raza, Cyber Crime Circle sub-inspector for the Rawalpindi Police, and NR3C Technical Officers Mr. Aun Abbas, and Mr. Amjad Abbasi.

PR. No. 78
PRESS RELEASE
Islamabad 07, July 2010

Taking notice of increasing number of websites hacking/defacement cases in the country, Mr. Shahid Nadeem Baloch (PSP), Director Cyber Crimes/FIA constituted an investigation team under the supervision of Mr. Muhammad Idrees Mian, Additional Director NR3C/FIA Cyber Crime Circle Rawalpindi/Islamabad. Mr. Muhammad Raza, Sub-Inspector of Police Station Cyber Crime Circle Rawalpindi/Islamabad with assistance of Technical Officers of NR3C Mr. Aun Abbas and Mr. Amjad Abbasi taking a prompt action carried out a detailed investigation.  FIA team unearthed notorious hackers’ group namely “Pakbugs” and arrested five (05) hackers belonging to this group from various parts of the country while taking the computers and other related equipment involved in various Cyber Crimes into possession. This group is involved in hacking/defacing thousands of websites belonging to various government/non-government organizations and international organizations also. Mr. Zafar Ullah Khan (PSP), the Director General Federal Investigation Agency appreciated the achievements of the team.

Details of these hackers are given below:

1. Jawad Ehsan alias Humza, located in Riyadh Saudi Arabia, still at large

Nick Name: ZombiE_KsA

Membership:           Pakbugs (Founder)

Total Defacements:  169 of which 69 single ip and 100 mass defacements

2. Ahmad Hafeez, arrested from Lahore

Nick Name: vergil

Membership:           Pakbugs (as moderator), Pakhaxorz (as moderator)

Total Defacements:  480 of which 157 single ip and 323 mass defacements

3. Hassan Khan, arrested from Peshawar

Nick Name: x00mx00m

Membership:           Pakbugs (Co-founder)

Total Defacements:  8697 of which 646 single ip and 8051 mass defacements

4. Farman Ullah  Khan, arrested from Bannu

Nick Name: Farman

Membership:           Pakbugs (as VIP-member)

Defacements details could not be retrieved.

5. Malik Hammad Khalid, arrested from Rawalpindi

Nick Name: inject0r

Membership:           Pakbugs (as super moderator)

Total Defacements:  134 of which 82 single ip and 52 mass defacements

6. Taimoor Zafar Bhatti, arrested from Rawalpindi

Nick Name: h4v0c-

Membership:           Pakbugs (as super-moderator)

Total Defacements:        105 of which 36 single ip and 69 mass defacements

FIA Cyber Crimes Department have also identified hackers with nick-names BiG^Smoke, Cyber-Criminal, spo0feR and [a], who have committed a large number of cyber crimes.

These individuals have expertise in following techniques:

1) Linux

2) SQL Injection

3) Trojan horses

4) Phishing

5) Rooting

6) Access to various servers

7) Botnets

8) PHP Scripts

9) Stealers

10) ASP scripts (self writing)

11) JSP scripts (self writing)

12) Key loggers

13) Credit Cards Jacking and usage of stolen Credit Cards

 

Source: Online, http://www.pid.gov.pk/press07-07-2010.htm