FBI busts phishing gang
Arrests made in Poland and US, more expected.
A large operation carried out by the FBI against a phishing operation has resulted in a string of arrests. Four people
are being held in the US and a further 13 in Poland, with searches also carried out in Romania, where more arrests are
believed likely. It is thought that as many as 100,000 credit cards numbers could have been gathered by the gang.
The phishing gang based in Poland are believed to have targeted several financial institutions during the late summer
of 2004, with attacks using trojans and spoofed websites designed to reap credit card data, as well as hacking into
protected databases. Compromised bank accounts were then looted online or had data sold on to criminals in the US, who
created fake cards using the stolen information. Raids were conducted in several states, with carding equipment seized
and more arrests also expected in the next few days.
The Romanian side of the operation appears to be the source of keylogging trojans used in some of the scams. With
several premises searched and at least three suspects questioned, police hope to be able to round up those involved
there soon.
06 November 2006
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