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Germanys Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has announced the arrests of two individuals in Bavaria and Lower Saxony. Theyre suspected of operating a botnet that has helped them generate over 700,000 ($954,000) in Bitcoins. According to authorities, three suspects are investigated, but only two of them were arrested on the night between December 2 and […]

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We wrote about the ransomware trojan (aka BKA Trojan) and its new methods of blackmailing people to pay: claim in the name of an official institution that the user did something illegal, like storing children pornography pictures on his computer. The new variant of the BKA trojan attempts to blackmail the owners of infected computers […]

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The so called “BKA Trojan” (BKA stands for German Federal Criminal Police) malware which is also known as the Ransom trojan in other countries, has found a more convincing way to fool computer users to pay. Now, together with other eight possible misdeeds,  the user is accused of hosting and distributing child pornography materials from his computer. […]

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