Eric Markowitz reports:
Just before dawn on Feb. 14, in a quiet residential suburb of Karachi, Pakistan’s chief cybersecurity officer, Mir Mazhar Jabbar, stood silently outside the home of Noor Aziz Uddin — a man the FBI calls one of its “most wanted” cybercriminals. Jabbar knocked. Standing behind Jabbar was a team of local Karachi police officers, waiting to raid Uddin’s home and place him under arrest.
Uddin, inside, knew that investigators were after him. For the past 2 1/2 years, Uddin had been on the run, the subject of an international manhunt. According to the FBI, Uddin was the mastermind behind a global phone fraud. Most recently, he’d been seen in Saudi Arabia, but he also had been known to travel to the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Malaysia, Pakistan and even, of all places, Newark, New Jersey.
Read more on International Business Times. So phreaking is not only still a thing, it seems, but it’s a very big thing.