US cyber team woos hackers to fight terrorists

LAS VEGAS, USA: An elite US cyber team that has stealthily tracked Internet villains for more that a decade pulled back its cloak of secrecy to recruit hackers at a notorious DefCon gathering here, says an AFP report.

According to the agency report, the new "A-Team" will be taking on terrorists, drug cartels, mobsters and other enemies on the Internet.

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"We do things the government can't," Uber said yesterday. "This was never supposed to have been a public thing."

Vigilant is an alliance of slightly more than 600 volunteers and its secret ranks reportedly include chiefs of technology at top firms and former high-ranking US cyber spies.

The group scours Internet traffic for clues about online attacks, terrorists, cartels and other targets rated as priorities by members of the democratically run private organisation.

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