http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/eta/ By Kevin Poulsen Threat Level Wired.com July 8, 2010 FBI agents have raided the homes of three alleged members of a hacker gang that harassed a security expert who helped put the group's leader in jail, according to a recently unsealed search warrant affidavit. Jesse William McGraw, aka "GhostExodus," pleaded guilty in May to computer-tampering charges for putting malware on a dozen machines at the Texas hospital where he worked as a security guard. He also installed the remote-access program LogMeIn on the hospital's Windows-controlled HVAC system. Last month's raids were prompted by the aftermath of McGraw's arrest. McGraw was the leader of an anarchistic hacking group called the Electronik Tribulation Army, and his bust led to a flood of harassment against the Mississippi computer-security researcher who discovered screenshots of the HVAC access online and informed the FBI. "They set up website in my name to pose as me, and put up embarrassing content or things they thought would embarrass me, including a call-to-action to buy sex toys, and fake pornographic images," says R. Wesley McGrew, 30, of McGrew Security. "They harvested e-mail addresses from the university I work at and e-mailed it out to those." [...] _________________________________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA 2010, hosted at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada July 24-29th, offering over 60 training sessions and 11 tracks of Briefings from security industry elite. To sign up visit http://www.blackhat.comReceived on Tue Jul 13 2010 - 01:05:26 PDT
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