Friday, July 23, 2004

British cybercops nab blackmailers

Britain’s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit announced that it has caught up with a Russian gang involved in online extortion and money laundering. The British agency, also known as NHTCU, arrested three men in connection with a series of raids that targeted an online “protection” racket that threatened to crash Web sites unless the gang was paid off. More arrests are expected.

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