[zdnet] In September 2008, police in the US began arresting alleged members of DarkMarket, an underground internet forum for buying and selling credit-card data used for identity fraud. The sting would not have been possible without the work of FBI agent J Keith Mularski, who spent two years infiltrating the group.
Mularski became hacker 'Master Splynter', a play on the name of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character called 'Master Splinter', a rat who lives in New York City's sewers. He was so successful in his online disguise that he ended up running the server that hosted the DarkMarket forum from his offices at the National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Mularski, a supervisory special agent with the FBI's Cyber Initiative and Resource Fusion Unit, spoke about the DarkMarket sting during a session at the RSA security conference in April. ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News caught up with him this week on the telephone to find out what it was like hanging out with cybercriminals.
FBI agent reveals details of cybercrime sting
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