CRIME BUSTER DOMAIN NOW USED TO SELL HOLIDAYS!
5 September 2008
NHTCU.org bought by German firm
NHTCU was an acronym that once struck fear into the
hearts of the Internet ungodly, achieving some
outstanding law enforcement successes against DDOS
crooks and other cyber-offenders, but it's now being
used to flog German holidays, reports the IT media this
week.
The acronym was for Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime
Unit, formed in 2001 to liaise with similar cyber-crime
busting agencies around the world to fight high tech
crime, but now disbanded and assimilated into the
Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCA).
Of no further use, the domain was apparently sold off to
an enterprising German Internet marketer, but as several
cyber-editors have pointed out, the sale is a serious
issue, because many websites around the world still have
links pointing to the old NHTCU website and on the Home
Office's own web pages.
Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos,
was the first to notice the issue when he clicked on a
link to the NHTCU website whilst reading a BBC article,
but instead of landing on the NHTCU webpage redirecting
people to the SOCA website, he instead arrived at a
website advertising German holidays.
Cluley told Techworld that at the moment, the German
site does not contain malware.
"There is no reason to think it will in the future," he
said. "But there is the potential for the unscrupulous
use of the site for nefarious purposes. It could contain
malware, or indeed, claim to be the actual NHTCU
website, which if it asked users to fill out their
details, would lead to identity theft."
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