Madrid.- The Civil Guard have arrested in the town of Torrelavega (Cantabria) a person to create and spread a virus to infect computers and steal passwords users from different social networks.
This computer file, named with the Win names WhatsApp, WhatsApp WhatsApp PC Spy, emulated version of the popular program WhatsApp messages to mobile phones, but adapted for use in conventional computer in order, as advertised, “WhatsApp spy on your boyfriend and your friends” , says a note from the military institution.
Far from fulfilling that function alleged espionage, the application actually stopped sending directly to the access passwords for the profiles of the victims. used The arrested then these keys to access their boards, private messaging, massively spreading through spam (mass advertising messages) downloading this application. could So-called “chain reaction” to continue to infect new levels of friendships, explains Civil Guard.
The hacker arrested in Operation Snooper used social engineering called the curiosity of millions of users of social networking techniques, had created pages posing as officers of the American company WhatsApp Inc. and thus encouraged the indiscriminate spread of viral and download software.
During the investigation, the Guardia Civil was found that the alleged creator of the virus to reside in the Cantabrian town of Torrelavega, which had a own server where you stored all the stolen information.
In the search of his home, the agents involved a server that contained more than 60 databases containing information of thousands of Spanish users who had been infected, and a script (automated file commands) used to send the virus through mass messages.
In addition, various websites where the packages were staying ready for downloading computer viruses were found. The operation was carried out by members of the Civil Guard specialists telematics research related crimes.
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