Three Nigerian nationals have been arrested in Lagos,
The suspects are believed to be members of a wider organized crime group responsible for distributing malware, carrying out phishing campaigns and extensive Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams.
According to a statement issued by INTERPOL on Wednesday, November 25, the suspects are links, domains, and mass mailing campaigns in which they impersonated representatives of organizations.
”They then use these campaigns to disseminate 26 malware programmers, spyware and remote access tools, including AgentTesla, Loki, Azorult, Spartan and the nanocore and Romcoms Remote Access Trojans. These programmes were used to infiltrate and monitor the systems of vict organizations and individuals, before launching scams and syphoning funds. According to Group-IB, the prolific gang is believed to have compromised government and private sector companies in more that. 150 countriesSince 2017 the statement says..
According to news report Group-IB was also able to establish the gang which is divided into subgroups with a number of individuals still at large. While investigations are still ongoing, some 50,000 targeted victims have been identified so..
