[ad_1]
Teams from the Istanbul Provincial Gendarmerie Command apprehended a 13-person Syrian ‘hackers’ network last week after long monitoring. The network, which operates internationally, also targeted companies operating in the international currency and securities markets. Hackers, who intervened in systems in an organized way, block the activities of companies that detected security weaknesses and earn hundreds of thousands of dollars in seconds by making purchases and sales on their own. In addition, he was receiving money by blackmailing companies with which they blocked his systems and confiscated his passwords. Members of the network will not open accounts in their name, in Turkey’s ‘temporary protection’ they were using the accounts opened in the name of Syrian refugee status.
They couldn’t escape from gandar
Finally, they targeted a Jordan-based company that has a stake in the London Stock Exchange. However, this time, following the company’s complaint, the Istanbul Provincial Gendarmerie Command was being monitored by the KOM Branch teams. Their phones were tapped. They thought that they could not be understood because they made all the speeches in Arabic. They spoke openly about their criminal acts. However, the gendarmerie personnel who knew Arabic were translating all the spoken words and the operation plans were made accordingly. When network connections were detected in Bursa, Gaziantep and Şanlıurfa, as well as Istanbul, the button was pressed. A total of 13 people were captured, including the person considered the head of the network.
THE MONEY WILL GO TO THE TREASURE
In searches carried out in places including an office in the Grand Bazaar used by the suspects, € 1,850,000 with a total value of TL 30 million, $ 1.2 million and a large amount of gold were seized. According to the details Hürriyet reached, the suspects who were detained in the Grand Bazaar office knew that the money would be evidence against them and that they could not explain the origin of so much money. They refused saying, “We only use the office to negotiate, we don’t know about the money.” Since these crimes were committed internationally and were foreign companies, the identity of the other victims could not be known. The money will be left to the Treasury since it is considered as ‘blackmail money’ obtained from the crime and there are no victims who request it. (Source: Hürriyet)
