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MATTHEW VELLA mvella@mediatoday.com.mt 8 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 18 FEBRUARY 2024 NEWS CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Submit your application DIRECTOR (STRATEGY & DIGITAL INNOVATION) Aġenzija għas-Servizzi tal-Qrati Prospective candidates must be in possession of: • a recognised Master's qualification at MQF Level 7 (subject to a minimum of 90 ECTS/ECVET credits or equivalent) in Management or Leadership or Business Administration or Strategy or ICT or a comparable professional qualification plus five (5) years' relevant work experience, one (1) of which in a management position; or • a recognised Bachelor's degree at MQF Level 6 (subject to a minimum of 180 ECTS/ECVET credits or equivalent) in Management or Leadership or Business Administration or Strategy or ICT or a comparable professional qualification plus eight (8) years' relevant work experience, three (3) of which in a management position. Candidates must also have an in-depth knowledge of strategic management and have good management skills, including a good sense of judgement and decision-making abilities. Candidates must be of conduct which is appropriate to the post. The basic salary for this position at 2024 rates, is equivalent to €41,433 per annum. This position attracts also a yearly all-inclusive Transport Allowance, an Expense Allowance, a Communication Allowance, a Monitoring Allowance, a Training Allowance and Annual Performance Bonus up to a maximum of 15% of the basic salary, subject to satisfactory performance. The position of Director is on a full-time three- year definite contract (renewable) and is subject to a probationary period of one year. Candidates are to submit their letter of application, their qualifications and experience in a Europass Curriculum Vitae Format, a copy of their relevant scanned certificates and a valid Police Conduct Certificate by e-mail on recruitment.courts@courtservices.mt. Further information and a comprehensive description of duties can be obtained by contacting the Court Services Agency on recruitment.courts@courtservices.mt. Applications will be received till Friday 1st March 2024 at 13:00 hrs. Eligibility JobsPlus Permit No. 660/2023 Malta hacker gave discount code to A young Zabbar man who had spent 10 years working the inter- net forums hosting hackers and trading in trojans that turned un- knowing victims' computers into 'slaves', was arrested after his cli- ents turned out to be none oth- er than covert FBI employees in Georgia. Daniel Meli, 27, was arrested in Malta on 7 February for allegedly selling and training criminals in the use of Warzone, a remote ac- cess trojan software that bypasses security systems and remotely ac- cesses computers without the vic- tims' knowledge. But the end of the road soon came for Meli, when in February 2022 he sold a RAT for $180 in Bitcoin to an FBI online covert employee from Georgia. The game was up. From then onwards, the FBI was tracking his operations, one of several in a global anti-cy- bercrime investigation that spread as far as Australia. Meli now faces eight counts of criminal conspiracy in a district court in Georgia that could see him face several years in prison inside the notorious American in- carceration system. It is alleged that after tricking victims into installing the malware on their computers via email at- tachments or fake links, criminals could then browse file systems, record keystrokes, steal usernames and passwords, and access web cameras. The AFP, the US Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation and Europol were among a number of international police forces to have worked together on Meli's arrest. Separately, another man, Prince Onyeoziri Odinakachi, 31, was ar- rested in Nigeria, also on 7 Febru- ary. He is alleged to have provided online customer support to indi- viduals who purchased and used the Warzone malware from June 2019. A malware vendor and mentor Meli was described as a malware vendor and 'RAT mentor' who operated on the HackForums in- ternet forum to offer his services for sale, including remote access trojans, which are designed to al- low attackers to remotely control infected computers. Known as 'xVulnerable' on fo- rums, Meli offered his services to hackers using RATs to help them remain anonymous and conceal their activity from the victim com- puters' users and law enforcement. He offered them teaching tools such as an eBook to assist custom- ers with the private RAT spreading method, he used to obtain numer- ous 'slaves' very quickly: often, he targeted the computers of gamers, who are generally known to have high-performance hardware that is optimal for mining cryptocur- rency. But it was an administrator of the online criminal enterprise known as Skynet Corporation, that Meli scaled up his activities. On HackForums, Meli offered several different types of identifi- cation for customers to use to con- tact him on Skype, Discord, and Telegram, while concealing his true identity. He boasted of having worked for over 500 customers, with a well-established reputation in the HackForums community that was demonstrated by over 8,000 posts and past product and service of- ferings since his account's creation way back in 2012. According to the charges issued against him, in December 2021 Meli was said to have entered into Malware vendor extradited to the United States had asked his partners for raise given that he 'risked going to prison' for selling remote access trojans