Spanish Webcam Spies, Online Fraudsters Apprehended

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

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Via Help Net Security News.

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According to Spanish newspaper reports, two seventeen year-olds were
arrested yesterday in Alicante, charged with creating a Trojan horse which
allowed them to remotely take control of webcams within local educational
institutions. This enabled the duo to spy on students and record
compromising images, which they then used to blackmail the victims into
giving them money.

Later in the same day, two adults were arrested in Madrid, in connection
with the original inquiry. It is claimed that the adults used the teenage
malware authors to obtain confidential data in order to commit credit card
fraud. Using fake credit card details, the two adults allegedly made
purchases amounting to more than 60,000 EUR.

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More:
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=4422

- - ferg


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