Spanish Police and Europol did a major bust
today, arresting several persons connected to the
well-known "Police" ransom trojans.
We've covered these ransom trojan
families
on our blog before, but in a nutshell, they lock up an infected PC,
claiming to be the local police and demanding the
victim to pay a "fine" to open up the system.
All
in all, 11 people were arrested and six premises
were searched.
Here's an arrest
video
released by
Spanish Brigada de Investigaci�n Tecnol�gica de
la Polic�a Nacional.
Note the use of Cellebrite devices to
take forensic images of suspect mobile phones (at
around 2 minutes into the video).
Congratulations
to Spanish Police and EC3. This bust must have
felt good, as the brands of both have been misused
by police trojans (see the below snippet taken
from a screen displayed by a trojan):
