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Scotland Yard cuffs teens for role in cybercrime forum

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Dissent

Chris Williams reports:

Two teenagers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the world’s largest English-language cybercrime forum.

The pair were detained by appointment in central London on Wednesday by the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), a national unit based at Scotland Yard.

An eight-month investigation into the forum, which hasn’t been named, found it had almost 8,000 members who traded malware, cybercrime tutorials and stolen banking information.

The cybercrime tools for sale included the ZeuS Trojan and data stolen from machines it has already infected. Detectives have so far recovered 65,000 credit card numbers from the forum.

Read more on The Register.


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