ROMANIAN DUO ARRESTED FOR RUNNING MALWARE ENCRYPTION SERVICE TO BYPASS ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE

From europol.europa.eu

Two Romanian suspects have been arrested yesterday for allegedly running the CyberSeal and Dataprotector crypting services to evade antivirus software detection. These services have been purchased by more than 1560 criminals and used for crypting several different type of malware, including Remote Access Trojans, information stealers and ransomware.

The pair also operated the Cyberscan service which allowed their clients to test their malware against antivirus tools.

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