Thursday, February 14, 2013

Russian-led cybergang broken by police

10:04 AM | Posted by ProJ | | Edit Post

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washed over a million after malware attacks demanded money from people in 30 countries

Spanish police have busted a gang of criminals whose "ransomware" virus demanded money from thousands of users in 30 countries, posing as a police message.

The 11-strong band laundered more than one million euros per year from mid-2011, sending money to Russia. The chef, a Russian 27 years was arrested while on holiday in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in December, an international arrest warrant. Spain seeks extradition. On Wednesday, the rest of the group - six Russians, two Ukrainians and two Georgians - were arrested by Spanish police on the Costa del Sol

arrests point to growing cooperation between private high-tech experience to identify the source of some of the commercial "malware" used to infect computers and steal information or persuade people to return the money, and police organizations from several countries who have enough time or resources to carry out this analysis themselves. The latest arrests were helped by security firm Trend Micro, but in other cases, Microsoft and security firms Symantec and F-Secure have played an important role in showing the location of gangs.

The "ransomware" virus freeze Windows PC, then view the screen messages that claim to be law enforcement authorities, including Europol, saying that the user has fined € 100 to access shared files, pornography or terrorist sites. Researchers at security firm Trend Micro, who played a role in the search for the origin of the software, said there were 48 different virus variants used.
  • Early versions of the software were seen for the first time in Russia in 2005, but the group has been refined so that it can show the appropriate logos to the police in which country was your computer of the user.
  • Europol Director Rob Wainwright - whose name was used in the scam - said that "hundreds of thousands" of Europe were affected by the scam. "When the Considering that the average fine was € 100 ($ 130) and 3% ... she paid, then the damage is estimated at millions of dollars, "he said.
Spanish police said in a statement that since the first discovery of the virus in May 2011 he received 1200 complaints -. But the number of people affected was "certainly much more"

The 10 men arrested Wednesday were used for money laundering, while the 27 year old was behind the design of the virus. The system of money laundering in a game known as PaySafeCard / Ukash vouchers, that the "ransom" was paid, which was sent by the U.S. group in Spain, where it is converted into cash and money sent to Russia.


Trend Micro, said: "This coordinated activity - in the same way that the Trend Micro / FBI action against DNS Changer gangs in 2011 - leading directly to the arrest of persons suspected of being actively committed computer crime, rather than demolish associated infrastructure should serve as a model of how the security industry and public int effectively cooperate in the fight against Internet crime. "

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