Fwd: Police arrest 55 suspected hackers in Brazilian phishing swoop

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

(Thanks, Jose!)

Via Sophos.

[snip]

...Police in Brazil have arrested 55 people suspected of being part of a gang which phished millions from online bank 
accounts. Approximately 10 million reals ($4.6 million) is estimated to have been stolen from innocent internet users.

The police swoop, which involved 330 members of the federal police force, took place mostly in Campina Grande, in the 
state of Paraíba, some 1,100 miles north east of Rio. Other alleged members of the gang are still being looked for by 
the authorities.

According to the police, the gang broke into approximately 200 accounts at six different banks, infecting internet 
users' computers with spyware Trojan horses to steal confidential information such as account numbers and passwords. 
The Trojan horses were sent to online banking customers via email since May 2005.

According to a police statement, computers, cell phones, credit cards and other materials have been confiscated and 
will be examined as part of the investigation.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/02/brphishgang.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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