The website of Liberty Reserve, an exchange which, among other cyber-criminals themselves anonymous payments would run, is off the air after in Spain the presumed owner is arrested. The action would be in addition to Costa Rica in the U.S. are involved.
In addition to the arrest, the police in Costa Rica, visits to the home carried out by a number of companies of the suspect. In addition Liberty Reserve from the air extracted by the dns records of the .com domain has been changed. This refer now to the dns servers of Shadowserver.org. The nonprofit organization helps hosting companies and isp’s to say that in the fight against spam and botnets, but will on the matter is nothing to let go.
The website KrebsOnSecurity reported that several shadowy hackersfora, which in particular cyber criminals camp, panic has arisen. Some posters say they are afraid that they will be hefty sums of money lost. In addition, should the building Belanchuk already in 2006 in the United States have been prosecuted for money laundering. He would in 2002, a site under the name GoldAge have run which would greatly resemble Liberty Reserve. It would be more than 30 million dollars are laundered. The man was convicted but received a suspended sentence.