British citizen has been arrested in Estepona accused of accessing such illegal to 130 accounts of the social network Twitter, including a number of personalities from the political and financial world of the United States as Joe Biden, Barack Obama or Bill Gates.
The National Police Corps has reported this Wednesday through its Twitter account of this operation, called Portland and developed together with the FBI, which has revealed that among the victims of the arrested are US President Biden and one of his predecessors in the position.
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The detainee is accused of the crimes of cyber threats, cyber extortion and cyberbullying, according to the Spanish Police. According to the newspaper SUR , it is a 22-year-old young man who directed the millions of followers of the affected profiles towards a scam in which payments with bitcoin were offered.
The arrest took place on Tuesday by agents of the National Police Corps following an international order issued from the United States. The investigation began in July of last year, indicates the website of the Malaga newspaper, when the accounts of numerous public figures such as politicians referred to or businessmen Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos were victims of the cyber attack, as well as companies such as Apple or Uber.
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Very similar are messages posted in the accounts attacked in which was offered double the money users to enter with Bitcoin in a virtual purse criptomonedas , said the newspaper, which states that in the investigation have participated, among others, the Secret Service United States and United Kingdom authorities.
The detainee is also accused of cyberbullying a youth victim and could be behind a digital attack on other social networks.
The Florida software company Kaseya, which at the beginning of July was the victim of an attack by hackers that affected some 1,500 companies around the world, said that this Thursday it had obtained a new "effective" tool to respond to affected customers.
Kaseya, which serves more than 40,000 organizations around the world, said in a statement that it obtained a decryptor for the "victims" of this attack that prompted US President Joe Biden to warn his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, that it will respond to cyberattacks launched from Russia.
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The company explained that they obtained the tool from "a third party" and have teams that actively help affected customers without reports of any problems associated with the new decryptor.
Kaseya is working with Emsisoft to reach the customer, and Emsisoft has confirmed that the key is effective in unlocking the victims
The Kaseya cyberattack came after those suffered in recent months in the United States such as Colonial, the largest network of oil pipelines in the United States; and JBS, the world's largest meat processor, who were victims of similar operations by hackers.
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On the July 4 holiday weekend, hackers asked Kaseya for $ 70 million to allow affected corporations to resume operations. The REvil group , of Russian origin and whom experts point to as responsible, published this petition on a site associated with what is known as the deep internet.
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