The leader of a group of cyber criminals who attacked RBS Worldpay will not go to prison
A Russian judge has ruled that Victor sent to prison Pleshchuk, a leader of a group of virtual criminals who organized and launched a sophisticated attack on RBS WorldPay, the payment processor to the Bank of Scotland .
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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Pleushchuk The court sentenced 28-year, six-year suspended sentence and pay restitution of $ 8.9 million to RBS WorldPay.
In November 2008, the group led by cybercriminals Pleushchuk entered the RBS Worldpay system and stole the financial data of users in real time, while the processing system. The attackers used these data to clone credit cards 44 which increased the balance in order to withdraw more money.
The attack was so well coordinated that in just 12 hours a group of accomplices in Ukraine, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan, 280 cities in the United States, etc.. emptied their victims' accounts from 2,100 ATMs worldwide. The criminal ring obtained more than $ 9.4 million.
Russian police arrested and began estonia criminal proceedings against seven others who participated in the attack, including Sergei Tsurikov, one of the leaders in November he was extradited for trial in the United States.
Pleshchuk admitted that he participated in the attack but said he had no bad intentions. "This is not any kind of crime, cybercrime, and Pleshchuk not fully understand the damage he was causing."
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Microsoft wins a legal battle
A U.S. court has granted Microsoft the permanent control of 276 Internet domains Waledac botnet used to send instructions to their computers compromised.
The victory began in February, when the judge accepted the nearly 300 domains off temporarily to decide who would control them. Microsoft says that since then Waledac activity has stalled.
Microsoft's request was risky because it had been identified by cybercriminals botnet, so the accused could not defend against the allegations, a very important duty to ensure that the legal process is fair .
Still, the judge ruled that Microsoft would be appropriate to make permanent the new owner of the domain, including pages . Com,. Net,. Biz and. Org.
But to win the war against Waledac, Microsoft should work with Internet providers and security groups to notify owners of the 58,000 compromised systems and help them get rid of the infection.
Microsoft does not believe that the defense issue any appeal, but says that criminals have already shown their displeasure as best they know how: by launching denial of service attacks to his legal team.
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