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U.S police force arrested three criminals who are said to be involved in the uprising of one of the deadliest virus online i.e. The Gozi virus. The Gozi virus since 2005 has affected more than 40,000 computers in the U.S. That belonged to many leading commercial and government centers, NASA is one of them. The attack was not only within U.S. but it affected many foreign countries, which included Germany, Great Britain, Poland, France, Finland, Italy, Turkey and many others .The developers of virus gained a total of $50 million illegal profits through this activity.
The investigations upon this virus began about 2.5 years back. According to an official of FBI, this should be a �wake up� call for all the people not only in U.S. but outside U.S. too. He also said:
�This case should serve as a wake-up call to banks and consumers alike because cybercrime remains one of the greatest threats we face, and it is not going away anytime soon,� Bharara the name of the official said. �It threatens individuals, businesses and governments alike.�The official�s quoting are much to be concerned of as cyber criminals are really making the cyber world insecure But, coming back to the investigations upon this virus there has been masses of seizing of the computer by FBI and different countries. FBI has seized such a massive data that it would take many years to analyze it. Romania which is one of affected countries has also seized 250 terabytes of data and has handed it to FBI through closure 51 servers running in the country, a FBI official said:
That vast pile of data is almost certain to aid criminal investigation at FBI offices around the country as well as law enforcement agencies around the world,� he said. �It is more than standard boilerplate to say that this investigation is very much ongoing.Coming to the suspects of this case who were namely: Nikita Kuzmin, Mihai Ionut Paunescu, Deniss Calovskis were of really young ages i.e. 25, 28 and 27 respectively. Kuzmin was the master mind behind all this and designed the virus over the years. He can be sentenced for a maximum of 95 years imprisonment by law. Paunescu and Calovskis were minor parts of this fraud and can be sentenced for 65 and 60 years respectively.
The law enforcement agencies also seized huge amount of cash from the criminals. Especially, from Calovskis from whom police seized $50,000 which he according to him was given to put additional features into the virus.
Rating: 4.5
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ItemReviewed: 3 nabbed for spreading Gozi Virus
According to Sources,Almost 9 out of 10 Filipino Internet users have been victimized by cybercrime or a malicious activity on the Internet at one time or another, the Department of Justice (DOJ) primer on facts and trends about cybercrimes committed in the country, Manila, Philippines.
The primer on Philippine cybercrime has been prepared by the DOJ as part of its advocacy program to prevent abuses in cyberspace as the legality of the new law against cybercrime is being deliberated in the Supreme Court.
In the three-page primer presented in a question and answer format, the DOJ said that cybercrime has become �one of the fastest growing crimes globally.�
In the Philippines, the primer quoted a 2010 report of the security software firm Symantec that as many as 87 percent of Filipino internet users (nearly nine out of 10) were identified as victims of crimes and malicious activities committed online. These included being victimized in activities such as malware (virus and Trojan) invasion; online or phishing scams; sexual predation; and services in social networking site like Facebook and Twitter.
From 2003 to 2012, the Anti-Transnational Crime Division (ATCD) of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) looked into 2,778 referred cases of computer crimes from government agencies and private individuals nationwide.
The primer defined cybercrime as a crime committed �with or through the use of information and communication technologies such as radio, television, cellullar phone, computer and network, and other communication device or application.�
The primer also noted that the first cybercrime case in the country was the controversial case involving Onel de Guzman who in 2000 released the �I Love You� virus.
�The case filed against De Guzman was dismissed at the first stage because there was no law punishing the deed as of that time in May 2000 in the Philippines,� it said.
The primer also said that two cybercriminals had been convicted for hacking under Republic Act no. 8792 or the Electronic Commerce Act or the E-Commerce Act. The first conviction involved a person caught hacking the government portal gov.ph and other government websites while the other involved a person who used the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) call center provider Sitel Philippines Corporation to illegally secure credit card information from the company�s sister firm, Sitel USA.
Since the new law against cybercrime has been suspended, the government is dealing with cybercrime-related cases using existing laws such as the E-Commerce Act, RA 9995 or the Anti-Photo and Voyeurism Act of 2009, RA 9725 or the Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009, RA 9208 or the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003, RA 8484 or the Access Device Regulation Act of 1998 and RA 4200 or the Anti-Wire Tapping Law.
Rating: 4.5
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ItemReviewed: 87% of Filipino Internet users have been victims of cybercrimes -report says
