Crime | December 7, 2011, Wednesday| 2085 views
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An international cyber crime gang that has been draining money through illegal transactions has been busted in a joint operation carried out by FBI and the Bulgarian police.
The gang has employed the so-called "phishing" emails to clients of main US banks in order to steal their user names and passwords and drain their accounts, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry has clarified in a press release.
Phishing is the practice of sending fraudulent email messages supposedly from a legitimate company or organization in order to trick someone into giving out personal and confidential information.
Employees of the "Computer Crimes" Department of Bulgaria's Unit for Combating Organized Crime (GDBOP) busted have captured a total of three Bulgarian hackers in the cities of Sofia and Burgas who have participated in the cyber crime gang.
The apprehended individuals are aged between 28 and 35. They had numerous accounts in libertyreserve.com, paypal.com, webmoney.ru and moneybookers.com, among others, the Bulgarian authorities have found out during the investigation.
Computers, cell phones, banks accounts data, documents proving money transactions, as well as plastic slabs have been have been gathered as evidence.
An international crime group, dealing with funds draining and illegal transactions in the USA by using high technologies, has been neutralised in the frames of a joint operation carried out by the FBI and the Bulgarian Chief Directorate for Combating Organised Crime /CDCOC/
The three hackers /between 28 and 36 years old/ were arrested in the Bulgarian cities of Sofia and Burgas. They were members of an organised crime group.
The operation was realised after an investigation launched over a signal.
The scheme starts with sending a fishing mail to clients of big US banks with links directing to fraudulent websites, where the usernames and passwords of the clients were stolen, while their money were transferred to someone else’s accounts. Authorities detected profiles of the detainees in www.libertyresrve.com, www.paypal.com, www.webmoney.ru, www.moneybookers.com and others.
During the arrests one of the detainees tried to access the computer at his office and delete the data. A lot of cell phones, compute configurations for hacker attacks, portable computers and external data carriers were found and confiscated, as well as documents for financial transactions.
The gang has employed the so-called "phishing" emails to clients of main US banks in order to steal their user names and passwords and drain their accounts, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry has clarified in a press release.
Phishing is the practice of sending fraudulent email messages supposedly from a legitimate company or organization in order to trick someone into giving out personal and confidential information.
Employees of the "Computer Crimes" Department of Bulgaria's Unit for Combating Organized Crime (GDBOP) busted have captured a total of three Bulgarian hackers in the cities of Sofia and Burgas who have participated in the cyber crime gang.
The apprehended individuals are aged between 28 and 35. They had numerous accounts in libertyreserve.com, paypal.com, webmoney.ru and moneybookers.com, among others, the Bulgarian authorities have found out during the investigation.
Computers, cell phones, banks accounts data, documents proving money transactions, as well as plastic slabs have been have been gathered as evidence.
A joint operation was carried out by FBI and Bulgarian Chief Directorate for Combating Organised Crime /CDCOC/
An international crime group, dealing with funds draining and illegal transactions in the USA by using high technologies, has been neutralised in the frames of the joint operationAn international crime group, dealing with funds draining and illegal transactions in the USA by using high technologies, has been neutralised in the frames of a joint operation carried out by the FBI and the Bulgarian Chief Directorate for Combating Organised Crime /CDCOC/
The three hackers /between 28 and 36 years old/ were arrested in the Bulgarian cities of Sofia and Burgas. They were members of an organised crime group.
The operation was realised after an investigation launched over a signal.
The scheme starts with sending a fishing mail to clients of big US banks with links directing to fraudulent websites, where the usernames and passwords of the clients were stolen, while their money were transferred to someone else’s accounts. Authorities detected profiles of the detainees in www.libertyresrve.com, www.paypal.com, www.webmoney.ru, www.moneybookers.com and others.
During the arrests one of the detainees tried to access the computer at his office and delete the data. A lot of cell phones, compute configurations for hacker attacks, portable computers and external data carriers were found and confiscated, as well as documents for financial transactions.
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