Keisatsu vs l33t h@x0rz

[yanpa]

Japan police offers first-ever reward for wanted hacker
Japan's National Police Agency has posted a US$36,000 reward for a case in which it wrongly arrested men with hacked PCs

IDG News Service - Japanese police are looking for an individual who can code in C#, uses a "Syberian Post Office" to make anonymous posts online, and knows how to surf the web without leaving any digital tracks -- and they're willing to pay.

It is the first time that Japan's National Police Agency has offered a monetary reward for a wanted hacker, or put so much technical detail into one of its wanted postings. The NPA will pay up to AY=3 million yen (US$36,000), the maximum allowed under its reward system.

The case is an embarrassing one for the police, in which earlier this year four individuals were wrongly arrested after their PCs were hacked and used to post messages on public bulletin boards. The messages included warnings of plans for mass killings at an elementary school posted to a city website.

"Up until now this type of reward was reserved for cases involving crimes like murder and arson, but the policy has recently been changed to include more types of crimes," an agency spokeswoman said on Thursday.

The reward poster, posted online on Wednesday, includes detailed technical descriptions of the wanted hacker's probable skills. These include the ability to use programming languages like C# to create a virus called "iesys.exe" and using an anonymous posting method called a "Syberian Post Office" to post messages to popular Japanese bulletin board 2channel. The agency also explains how a cross-site request forgery, an exploit that can allow hackers to making online postings via innocent users, was used in the case.

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[Coligny]

Iz not mee...

I wuz in mah bunk...

[wuchan]

I know about 50 people in tokyo that fit this description. I go into the city once a quarter. Given my limited exposure I am sure the j-cops won't find this person.



oh and:

includes detailed technical descriptions of the wanted hacker's probable skills

another "suspicion" arrest?

[Taro Toporific]

...WTF is the "Syberian Post Office"?

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3315307&cid=42284873
2ch sometimes bans IPs from posting. But not all boards on 2ch will share this ban. The "siberian super flash news" () board is one of these that doesn't take into account bans on the system, and so people post on this board and ask others to spread what they posted onto wherever they actually want it to be.
An extremely simple proxy for posting on 2ch, if you will.

If you can read Japanese the definition is in this page [impress.co.jp].
Basically there is an anonymous board in Japan known as 2ch...Sometimes your IP is blocked for some reason and you can't post. So you used this Siberian Post Office as some sort of proxy and it posts for you.

12 December 24, 2000--Regarding advertising spiff investigation
npa.go.jp/reward

There's a post that explains all the details of how to use the Siberia Post Office here, along with some beautiful ASCII art.
logsoku.com/r/siberia

What if it's a sting? What if they expect the real culprit to attempt to fit someone else up and take the cash?

[Coligny]

...WTF is the "Syberian Post Office"?

That from where they ship the mailorder brides... maybee...

[CAkOS]

Where is Falcon when you need him?