Somebody probably screwed up and sent a membership invite to the cops.
Unlucky 13 collared by cops hunting cyber-crew who stole up to $2.2bn
Thirteen out of 36 individuals indicted for their alleged involvement in a transnational cybercrime group know as Infraud have been arrested, the US Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. The Infraud Organization, according to prosecutors, coordinated various flavors of internet fraud including identity theft, bank …
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Thursday 8th February 2018 07:59 GMT Anonymous Coward
No, just grab their cover
Re-read the article and see where the "head" is from. It is a client kleptocracy of ours. If they want to retain the status of "client" they need to supply the people in their judiciary and government who provide cover for this lot.
In fact, I bet the FBI and Europol already knows all of them so it should not be an issue to grab them while they are going to or coming back from holidays in Cyprus or Monte Negro which they should not be able to afford with a Ukrainian judiciary salary.
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Thursday 8th February 2018 08:47 GMT Pascal Monett
"as this case shows"
Oh really ? Nice to know. So all those Nigerian Prince mails are going to stop as well ?
I'm glad the law put an end to some criminal activity, but don't get carried away. You only got the guys because they got big enough to warrant however much money was spent on catching them. In multiple countries at that.
If that is what it takes to catch an Internet crook, I think the Internet is plenty safe for the small-time criminals who only bother a few thousand people with cryptomalware. And since that is being shelved in favor of virtual currency mining, there will be even less incentive to go after scum like that. After all, it'll be difficult to indict them for an hour of illicit CPU use. On the other hand, that's all they took, so . . .
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