Spooks scour gambling sites in terror finance probe
February 9, 2010 by supermario
Filed under Police State
Robert Blincoe
The Register
Security services are running 23 ongoing investigations into the exploitation of gambling websites to finance terrorism.
The revelation shows the online gaming industry is still vulnerable, and a prime target for criminals and terrorists, even after being at the centre of the conviction of the man described as the “godfather of cyber-terrorism for al-Qaida” and two of his associates back in 2007.
The three men convicted, for inciting people to commit murder through their extremist websites – Tariq al-Daour, Waseem Mughal and Younes Tsouli – used Windows-based Trojans to steal information such as credit card numbers, and then laundered them using the gambling sites. Between them they received sentences totalling 38 years (extended from an original 24 by the Court of Appeal).
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