Presented at
Black Hat USA 2017,
July 26, 2017, 4 p.m.
(50 minutes)
How did the Feds catch the notorious Russian computer hacker Roman Seleznev - the person responsible for over 400 point of sale hacks and at least $169 million in credit card fraud? What challenges did the government face piecing together the international trail of electronic evidence that he left? How was Seleznev located and ultimately arrested? This presentation will begin with a review of the investigation that will include a summary of the electronic evidence that was collected and the methods used to collect that evidence. The team that convicted Seleznev will show how that evidence of user attribution was used to finger Seleznev as the hacker and infamous credit card broker behind the online nics nCuX, Track2, Bulba and 2Pac. The presentation will further discuss efforts to locate Seleznev, a Russian national, and apprehend him while he vacationed in the Maldives. Finally, the presentation will cover the August 2016 federal jury trial with a focus on computer forensic issues, including how prosecutors used Microsoft Windows artifacts to successfully combat Seleznev's trial defense. They argued that the laptop he was arrested with had been tampered with and that evidence on the laptop had been planted by a mysterious super hacker.
Presenters:
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Norman Barbosa
- Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington, U.S. Department of Justice
Norman Barbosa leads the U.S. Attorney's Office's Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) crimes unit and serves as the office National Security Cyber Specialist. He investigates and prosecutes international organized cybercrime, national-security cyber intrusions, theft of trade secrets, intellectual property crimes, and other high-tech crimes. Additionally, he provides advice and training to state and federal law enforcement on issues related to electronic search and seizure and the implications of emerging technologies on law enforcement. Since joining the Department of Justice in 2002, he has prosecuted a wide range of Federal crimes and recently convicted Russian National, Roman Seleznev, for computer crimes and credit card trafficking for which he was awarded a Distinguished Service Award from the Director of the United States Secret Service.
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Harold Chun
- Trial Attorney, Independent
Harold Chun is a trial attorney with extensive experience investigating and litigating complex computer crimes. Most recently, he was Senior Counsel with the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, where he prosecuted federal computer crimes and intellectual property violations, including offenses related to hacking, botnets, DDOS attacks and trade secret theft. Additionally, he actively participated in the formulation and application of policy related to international and domestic cybercrime and cybersecurity. Prior to joining CCIPS, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of California, where he prosecuted a wide-range of federal offenses, including white-collar fraud schemes, narcotics trafficking, money-laundering, sports bribery, violent crimes and RICO predicate acts. Since joining the U.S. Department of Justice in 2005, he has conducted more than a dozen federal jury trials, most recently convicting notorious computer hacker Roman Seleznev, for which he was awarded a Distinguished Service Award from the Director of the Secret Service.
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