US Edition"To Steal Everything From Grandmothers": After Googlexcoder's Arrest, a Brazilian Programmer, "One of the Most Active Criminal Organisations" in Spain Was Dismantled
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According to the Spanish authorities, the main suspect was specialized in the creation of a programme which he resold to crooks, which were then used for data thefts.
The arrest of a young Brazilian in San Vicente de la Barquera (Cantabria, 3,985 inhabitants) in February 2024 has given the key to the Civil Guard to disarticulate, more than a year later, “one of the most active organizations” in the country charged with posing as banks or companies to steal confidential information, such as bank details or credit card numbers.
It happened in Spain. Brazilian now detained "was completely unknown from the forces and security bodies, both national and international"
The man was detained in Cantabria, north of Spain, in an operation that counted with the collaboration of the Brazilian Federal Police, said the Spanish Civil Guard, in a communiqué. He was “distorted from one of the most active criminal organizations in the area of ‘phising’ in Spain with the detention of a 25-year-old Brazilian youth considered the main provider of tools for the mass theft of believers’, according to the Civil Guard, security …
Agents of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard have arrested in the Cantabrian town of San Vicente de la Barquera a 25-year-old Brazilian youth known as 'GoogleXcoder', who has been identified as the main provider of tools for banking phishing (fraud) aimed at criminal groups who came to boast in their messaging channels of "stealing everything from grandmothers."The operation has been carried out in collaboration with the Brazi…
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