British Police: Most Hackers Are Teenagers

Most hackers by the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) are monitored his teens. That leaves Jamie Saunders, head of the cyber crime unit of the NCA, compared with Channel 5 News know. According to Saunders monitors the NCA a few thousand hackers.

Although the majority teens, their parents often do not know what they're up and the young people themselves not by what they are doing is illegal, according to Saunders. "We are talking about hundreds, a few thousand people we have identified and engaged in this type of crime." According to Saunders internet is still a very new field and there in society have no understanding of what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior, as it does for all other crimes.

Trend Micro: Only Arrests Can Stop Cyber Crime

Only arrests can really put an end to cyber crime, according to anti-virus firm Trend Micro in response to recent occurrence of various police forces against the Dridex botnet. The FBI, the British National Crime Agency (NCA) and Europol were able to disable several servers of the botnet.

The botnet was used by criminals to steal money from online bank accounts. Despite the occurrence Dridex is still active. "It was developed as a botnet as a service (BaaS). It consists of several botnets each having different configuration files," says Michael Marcos. Although Dridex is affected by the operation of law enforcement agencies were not all servers off.

It was also arrested only one member of the gang Dridex, a system administrator. The other members are still on the run and continued their activities. According to Trend Micro disrupt such operations cyber criminal activities in the short term, but long-term success is not always guaranteed. "They ensure that the least effective threats are removed and cyber criminals can learn from their mistakes. Arrests are therefore required to really put an end to cyber crime," said the virus fighter.

FBI And Europol Disrupt Botnet Digital Bank Robbers

The FBI, the British National Crime Agency (NCA) and Europol are working to disrupt a botnet that criminals use to steal 30 million online bank accounts. It involves the Dridex-malware, where the US government yesterday for warned.

Through the malware managed to infect criminals in Moldova and other countries, computers and then steal data for Internet banking. In this way could then money from online accounts are stolen. One of the managers of the Dridex botnet has now sued. It is a 30 year old man from Moldova who in late August was arrested in Cyprus.

The various investigative agencies are now working for the malware to 'sink holes' so that the criminals behind the botnet can no longer control the infected computers. This involves a continuous campaign directed against different versions of Dridex and the criminals behind it, says Europol.

Brit Spied For Years People Via Hacked Webcams

In Britain, a man condemned for years other people using hacked webcams spying. The 33-year-old Briton was arrested late last year as part of an international operation against users Black Shades malware, reports the National Crime Agency.

The malware was for an amount of between 40 and 100 dollars offered on the Internet and could easily be adapted for a variety of purposes, such as conducting DDoS attacks, steal passwords or install additional malware. Globally, more than 500 000 computers in more than 100 countries with malware have become infected. The British used the data of his ex-girlfriend to purchase the malware. On the computer of the man photos were found in men who had sex with each other in front of their computer.

The Briton admitted he beside the watch with the webcam via Black Shades also gained access to the emails and passwords of his victims. The 33-year-old man known to be addicted to spying on his victims. During a period of 3 years, he was here 5 to 12 hours per day working on it. He is sentenced to a suspended sentence of 40 weeks and seven years will be included in the registry for sex offenders. A Dutch man who committed the same type of offense through the Black Shades malware in 2014 was a imprisonment, as well as community service ordered.

British Police Arrest 57 People Due To Cybercrime

British police last week arrested 57 people on suspicion of cybercrime. The arrested persons are suspected of breaking into multinationals and government and steal data, performing DDoS attacks, cyber fraud and developing malware.

This would have a 21-year-old man 400,000 email addresses and passwords of Yahoo stolen and published in 2012. A 33-year-old man is suspected of having a DDoS attack on a competitor performed in order to gain a competitive advantage. A third suspect would have carried out a phishing attack in which £ 15,000 was captured. A 23-year-old man is suspected of breaking into the Pentagon, where he information about a satellite service would have captured.

In addition to maintaining all the suspects said the British National Crime Agency (NCA), which this week also SMEs, hosting companies and ISPs helped identify threats to their infrastructure. So got 60 companies visited by the police and became their IT environment controlled. This resulted in more than 5,500 hacked servers.

Through these servers could send cybercriminals spam, perform DDoS attacks and hosting phishing sites. If organizations follow the advice of the NCA, it could halve the phishing attacks in Britain, according to the investigation department. Police Chief Executive Peter Goodman calls geburikers organizations and therefore to take simple measures that help to be safe on the Internet and make it harder for criminals to get away with it.