National Police and Civil Guard, together with eight more bodies, have participated in a coordinated operation to neutralize two large cybercrime forums with more than 10 million users and thousands of publications in which access credentials were bought and sold. In addition to offering all kinds of criminal services.
Just a few minutes ago, the Civil Guard and National Police They have made official the arrest of a man and a woman with alleged crimes of discovery and revelation of secrets, money laundering and belonging to criminal organization.
The two detainees had a key role in two of the most active forums in the field of cybercrime. His work, in addition to administering these forums, was to intermediate in criminal transactions that were carried out with cryptocurrencies. An activity whose economic benefits allowed them to enjoy a high standard of living in their day to day.
It is estimated that the two large intervened forums had more than 10 million users and thousands of publications with daily updates. In them, we could find a purchase of fraudulent information, as well as credentials of access to companies and organism and manuals with cybercrime techniques, among many other elements focused on identifying any vulnerability to extract and market with sensitive data.
An international operation with more than eight coordinated countries
The Civil Guard and National Police have worked in an international operation coordinated by the Europol agency, which has had the participation of many other countries, such as Germany, Australia, France, Italy and the United States, among others. A coordinated macrooperation that has allowed neutralizing the activity of the Cracked and Nulled forums, known for operating internationally.
The agents have arrested the two characters already mentioned in the city of Valencia and have intervened numerous computer material that is still being investigated. In addition, large sums of money in cryptocurrencies have also been intervened, for a value that It would exceed € 230,000, as well as money in cash.
In the two disjointed platforms we could find tools and all kinds of software based on artificial intelligence, whose main purpose was to find security vulnerability that allowed Articulate large -scale computer attacks To win sensitive data that, a posteriori, put on sale.
A DATA AND CREDENTIAL MARKET
The forums acted as a link between buyers and vendors who were interested in documentation of all kinds: personal, banking and credential data that had been subtracted from victims from all over the world.
State security forces and forces have explained that cybercrime as a service, CRIME AS A SERVICE In English, it is a booming trend on platforms such as Cracked and Nulled. Criminals offer infrastructure and materials to all interested parties, allowing people with not so advanced computer knowledge to carry out attacks on all kinds of organisms. A very dangerous trend, for its ability to constantly multiply the number of cybercriminal actions that can be produced in the network.
For the Europol agency, together with the rest of the partners, it is one of the main focus. Having reinforced the fight against this type of crimes through coordinated actions such as the one carried out during today in the city of Valencia.
