Tech Park Operation in Bengaluru Uncovered in Cross-Border Malware Sca

 

The Bengaluru police have made a major breakthrough in their fight against a far-reaching cybercrime syndicate that was operating inside one of the city’s bustling technology parks by uncovering and dismantling an alleged tech-support fraud operation that was operating within. 
The officials stated that the group, which is based out of an office operating under the name Musk Communications situated on the sixth floor of the Delta building in Sigma Soft Tech Park, Whitefield, was posing as Microsoft technical support representatives to terrorize unsuspecting victims in the United States by issuing fabricated Federal Trade Commission (FTC) violation alerts. 
Using a judicial search warrant as well as credible intelligence, Cyber Command’s special cell and Whitefield division cyber crime police mounted a series of coordinated raids on Friday and Saturday following the receipt of credible intelligence. According to investigators, the operation was sophisticated, and it siphoned off several crores of rupees by largely using cryptocurrency channels, a process that investigators believe is highly sophisticated. 
It was found, according to the Times of India, that the fraud network employed a carefully choreographed playbook of deception, which included utilizing fake security pop-ups and falsified FTC violation notifications to convince victims into transferring money by using counterfeit security pop-ups and f

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