FBI and the Dutch police seize and close robots from penetrated routers

The joint international law enforcement procedures closed two services accused of providing a Robot One of the Internet connected devices, including routers, to Internet criminals. American prosecutors also accused four people accused of hacking devices and operating robots.

On Wednesday, AnyProxy and 5Socks sites have been replaced by notifications stating that they were seized by the FBI as part of the law enforcement called the “Mondland”. The notification said that the law enforcement procedures by the FBI, the Dutch National Police (Politics), the US Prosecutor’s Office for the Northern Region in Oklahoma, and the US Department of Justice.

Then on Friday, American prosecutors Declare Dismantling robots and accusations of three Russians: Alexei Victorovic Cherkov, Kirill Vladimirovich Morozov, Alexander Alexandrovich Chicken; Dmitry Robertov, a Kazakhstan citizen. The four are accused of taking advantage of the operation of AnyProxy and 5Socks under the pretext of providing legitimate agent services, but the prosecutors who say the prosecutors have been built on penetrated routers.

Chertkov, Morozov, Rubtsoyv and Shishkin, who all reside outside the United States, targeted older models of wireless Internet routers that were known from weaknesses, weakening “thousands” of these devices Unrelevated indictment now.

Upon controlling these routers, the four individuals then sold access to Botnet on Anyproxy and 5Socks, the services that have been active since 2004, according to they Web sites And the shipping authorities.

The residential agent networks are not illegal alone; These offers are often used to provide customers with IP addresses for Access to geological content or bypassing government control. However, AnyProxy and 5Socks have built their network of agents-some of whom are made of residential IP addresses-during the injury of thousands of devices associated with weak internet and effectively converting them to Botnet used by electronic criminals, according to the Ministry of Justice.

“In this way, the online traffic for the Botnet subscribers comes from the IP addresses for devices that have been hacked instead of IP addresses for the devices actually used by subscribers to conduct their online activity,” I read the indictment.

The indictment added: “The conspirators who behave through 5Socks have publicly marketing on Botnet Anyproxy as a residential agent service on social media and online discussion forums, including Cybercriminal Forums.” “These housing agent services are especially useful for criminal infiltrators to provide anonymity when Internet crimes can be disclosed; it is generally that the Internet security services are supposed to be more likely to have Internet security services.”

According to the press release of the Ministry of Justice, it is believed that the four have achieved more than $ 46 million in selling access to Botnet.

The FBI spokesman had no comment when accessed by Techcrunch. The Dutch Ministry of Justice and the Dutch Police did not respond to requests to comment.

I told Ryan English, a Black Lotus Labs researcher, TECHCRUNCH before the field episodes that the two services were used in several types of abuse, including spraying the password, and release of the distributed service (Ddos) Attacks, advertising fraud.

On Friday, Black Lotus Labz, a team of researchers that includes the Cyber ​​Security Company Lumin, Publish a report Saying that they helped the authorities track the agent networks. As Black Lotus explained in its report, Botnet was designed “to provide anonymity to the online malicious actors.”

I tell the English language Techcrunch that he and his colleagues are confident that Anyproxy and 5Socks are “the same group of agents managed by the same operators, under a different name, and that” the largest part of Botnet were guidance devices, and all kinds of life -making and models. “

According to the report, based on the vision of LUMEN’s global network, Botnet had “about 1,000 active agents in more than 80 countries.”

Spur, a company that follows the agent services on the Internet, has worked on the process. Riley Kelmer, co -founder of Spur Techcrunch, told 5Socks that the company’s smaller criminal networks, the company “has gained popularity for financial fraud”.

This story was updated to include the FBI’s suspension.