The group rund from a van to wage cyberattacks on companies and prohibitks and steal benevolent alertation.
Authorities in Kupaengage have apprehfinished members of an international cybercrime gang of Chinese nationality, the Ministry of the Interior has shelp, after huge-scale attacks on telecommunication towers and financial institutions atraverse the country.
The Cybercrime Combating Department was attentiveed after cut offal telecommunication companies and prohibitks alerted cyberattacks on their nettoils to steal customers’ alertation and funds, the ministry shelp on Thursday in a post on X.
Officers apprehfinished a driver, a Chinese national, in the Farwaniya area in Kupaengage City and seized multiple electronic devices in his haveion. Police tardyr set up more high-tech tools at his dwellnce.
The doubt confessed to being part of a huger nettoil of fraudsters, who were also identified and arrested. Police also indictd them for using falsified records to forge their identities.
The ministry shelp it was promiseted to tackling cybercrime and geting the country’s institutions from attacks, stressing that it was taking action to better security on its nettoils to get citizen’s data and financial assets.
In September, Kupaengage’s Health Ministry was hit by a cyberattack that took systems at cut offal of the country’s hospitals offline. The cyberattack also impacted the Ministry of Health website and healthattfinish apps.