The US government sanctions technology company participating in electronic fraud operations

The United States government has imposed sanctions on Funnull, a company accused of providing infrastructure for electronic criminals who manage encrypted fraud “slaughtering pigs”, which led to the losses of $ 200 million to American victims.

On Thursday, the Treasury Office to control foreign assets Declare The penalties, saying Funnull “is linked to the majority of the investment fraud sites in the virtual currencies reported to the FBI.” The press statement said that the $ 200 million losses lead to an average $ 150,000 loss per victim, but the numbers “may reduce the total losses, as many fraud victims do not report crime.”

Pigs slaughtering pigs The involvement of criminals who approach the victims online, and often pretend that they are interested in a romantic relationship, with the aim of deceiving the victims to send them money to invest in the non -existing encryption projects.

According to the Treasury, its headquarters is located in the Philippines in the Philippines and managed by Leo Lizhai, the Chinese national, who was also punished on Thursday.

According to the Treasury Treasury, it was created for the domain names for web sites on the IP addresses that you own, and provided “web design templates to the e -criminal.”

The Treasury said: “These services are not only easy for Internet criminals to commit suicide reliable brands when creating fraudulent websites, but also allows them to quickly change to different names and IP addresses when project providers try to transfer websites.”

Federal Bureau of Investigation I issued an alert This included more information about these activities.

The treasury referred to Polyfill supply attack In her press statement, she told Funnel, “He bought a warehouse of the code used by web developers and changing the code in a harmful way to redirect visitors to the Sharia web sites of the fraud and gambling sites online, and some are linked to Chinese money laundering operations.”

These activities are exactly what Researchers from the Silent Cyber ​​Security Company Push accused of Funnull for implementing last year. The researchers found that Funnull was responsible for the Polyfill supply attack, which was launched to push harmful programs to those who visited web sites that used the Polyfill icon. The researchers found that the goal is to redirect users to a malicious network of casino and online gambling sites.

Zach Edwards, a researcher at Silent Pace, who worked in the Phonnol report last year, told Techcrunch that he was “really happy to see the facts compatible with our complaints.”

Edwards said: “It is encouraging that the cabinet has taken measures against the largest swine slaughter network and laundering money that targets people in the United States, but we know that more should be done,” Edwards said. “This effort from Funnull is the tip of iceberg of what is already going out outside China with financial plans targeting Americans.”

He added: “Representatives of the global threats that target Americans who have financial fraud must bear, and bypass the companies they work with and the individuals who run these companies, a first important step.”