Pakbugs was a Pakistani-based crime forum and security releases updates, offering discussion of hacking, credit card fraud, phishing and other forms of computer crime; as well as trading in malware, bank login details and stolen credit card numbers. The forum was shut down by Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency after raids in 2010, in which five individuals were arrested, with the alleged founder suspected to remain at large in Riyadh.
In addition to being a crime forum, PAKbugs was also the nomenclature of a group, used by individuals on numerous occasions to claim responsibility and attribution for defacement of several high-profile Web sites.
Also, the forum offered resources and courses to pen-testing, programming and a lot of IT subjects, from beginner to advanced. A lot of users was registered to learn about programming, security, software engineering.