Law-enforcement officials conducted, inward total, 25 dissever operations across England, Scotland together with Wales, together with those arrested were suspected inward a broad make of cyber crimes including:
- Network intrusion together with information theft from multinational companies together with authorities agencies
- Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
- Cyber-enabled fraud
- Malicious software together with virus development
The raids conducted yesteryear NCA were coordinated yesteryear its National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU), exceptional officers Metropolitan Police together with Regional Organised Crime Unit's (ROCUs), associated amongst local forces closed to the UK.
The arrested hackers every bit good include alleged hackers suspected of existence behind attacks on Yahoo, the US Department of Defence (DoD), together with PlayStation. The listing of hackers arrested inward the functioning is given below:
- A 23-year-old homo was allegedly responsible for breaching a satellite communications organisation used yesteryear the the States Department of Defense. The hacker accessed 'non-confidential contact information' of close 800 users, including name, title, e-mail addresses together with telephone numbers together with gained command over information from 34,400 devices, including IMEI numbers.
- Another 21-year-old London homo was arrested who is suspected of existence an alleged fellow member of the D33ds Company hacking collective, the grouping that hacked into Yahoo inward 2012 together with posted every bit many every bit 450,000 e-mail addresses together with passwords online.
- An alleged fellow member of the Lizard Squad, the infamous hacking grouping which claimed the responsibleness for taking downward the Xbox Live together with PlayStation networks over Christmas, was arrested inward Leeds, Yorkshire, BBC reports. Lizard Squad fellow member is believed to endure 16-year-old teenager who was every bit good behind the attacks on every bit many every bit 350 websites, including Lenovo.
- A 20-year-old homo from Hackney, London was arrested on suspicion of committing a £15,000 phishing attack.
- A 22-year-old was apprehended on suspicion of developing together with distributing malware.
- Many to a greater extent than suspects were arrested amid above; y'all tin give the sack read the NCA's amount listing of arrests here.
"The 56 arrests closed to the province this calendar week are a effect of the essential partnership activeness amongst police pull enforcement, manufacture together with authorities that is at the catch of fighting cybercrime," said Andy Archibald, Deputy Director of the NCA's National Cyber Crime Unit.
"Criminals require to realise that committing criminal offence online volition non brand them anonymous to police pull enforcement. We are continuously working to runway downward together with apprehend those seeking to utilise computers for criminal ends, together with to disrupt the technical networks together with infrastructures supporting international cyber crime."
This is't showtime fourth dimension when law-enforcement agencies accept conducted such massive raids inward cyber crimes cases. Last year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) every bit good conducted a massive raids inward Europe together with Australia, and arrested to a greater extent than than 100 customers of Blackshades Remote Administration Tool (RAT) malware.
Blackshades together with other malware similar it allows hackers to remotely command victims' computers, turning on webcams, stealing usernames together with passwords for e-mail together with Web services, personal information, together with launching farther attacks on other computers, without the noesis of the estimator owner.
The malicious programme modifies itself inward such a way that it evade detection from the computer's antivirus software. Blackshades has been sold via PayPal together with hole-and-corner forums since at to the lowest degree 2010, which terms every bit niggling every bit $40.
However, the recent raids carried out yesteryear NCA didn't but target hackers behind well-known attacks or specific cyber crime. Instead it has arrested hackers behind phishing attacks, malware, together with every bit good companies that offered spider web hosting to known criminals.
'Strike week' every bit good suggests that the agencies was monitoring each together with every activeness of cyber crimes every bit good every bit hackers together with collecting potent evidences against them. Using that information, the officials raided together with arrested a long listing of cyber criminals.
