In a coordinated lwa coordinated action, among others, the FBI and the High Tech Crime Unit of the Dutch National criminal Investigation department are two gangs rolled up. The criminals would be on a large scale scareware and malware have offered.
One of the two rolled-up gangs would be nearly a million victims duped by nepvirusscanners to sell. Computer users were encouraged via misleading pop-ups with so-called warning messages. To the nepscanners to activate, had to customers to 90 euro to pay. The gang would be in a period of approximately three years more than 50 million euros have earned. Further reports to the FBI that the Latvian authorities seized have them put on a number of bank accounts that the criminals would have used it.
In the to Operation Trident) operation is also a gang rolled up that was active in ‘malvertising’. At that time were criminals as an advertising network, then banners in to buy on the news site Minneapolis Star Tribune. When the banners once turned, these were replaced by versions that have malware on systems could be placed. Then, the computer was locked and were spoofed virus messages is displayed. Only after payment is received, the user regain access to his pc.
The FBI estimates that at least 1,5 million euro with the malvertising is earned. We are also Watching arrested suspected of the fraud. During the actions against the cyber criminals, the FBI has cooperated with Germany, France, Sweden, Lithuania and the United Kingdom. Also, the High Tech Crime Unit would assistance granted by a number of servers seized.