Updated on November 5, 2015
GEEK SQUAD STRIKE FORCE TARGETS HACKERS
The black and white Ford Transit van quickly accelerated through the intersection, red and blue lights flashing and siren wailing. The target: another hacker who was about to be taken down by the recently-formed Geek Squad Strike Force.
Senior Strike Force Agent Drago “The Dragon” Filippi |
“Hackers are stealing America blind,” said Geek Squad Senior Agent Drago “The Dragon” Filippi. “It’s not enough for us to just spray canned air and remove malware anymore; we need to go after these criminals in the streets.”
To do that, Geek Squad strike force agents spend their day tracking hackers on the road, not sitting behind the counter at a Best Buy computer repair kiosk.
“We get them when they take a break to hit Starbucks. Then we pull them over and take them down,” explained Filippi as he watched traffic from the driver’s seat of his black and white strike force van.
A Geek Squad Task Force van stops a suspected hacker |