Poker player who won $1.5 million charged with running Android malware ring

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http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/poker-player-who-won-1-5-million-charged-with-running-android-malware-ring/

By Jon Brodkin
Ars Technica
July 25, 2013

A man who has won about $1.5 million in poker tournaments has been 
arrested and charged with running an operation that combined spam, Android 
malware, and a fake dating website to scam victims out of $3.9 million, 
according to Symantec.

Symantec worked with investigators from the Chiba Prefectural Police in 
Japan, who earlier this week "arrested nine individuals for distributing 
spam that included e-mails with links to download Android.Enesoluty—a 
malware used to collect contact details stored on the owner’s device," 
Symantec wrote in its blog.

Android.Enesoluty is a Trojan distributed as an Android application file. 
It steals information and sends it to computers run by hackers. It was 
discovered by security researchers in September 2012.

The suspect flagged as the "main player running the operation" is 
50-year-old Masaaki Kagawa of Tokyo, president of an IT firm named Koei 
Planning and a poker player with success in high-stakes tournaments around 
the world.

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