Cyberwar - Internet
war in the past 4 days, not four well-known consumer protection projects reached. The pages are under massive bombardment of a DDoS (Denial of Service) attack.
In this type of attack on a web page medium of a botnet mass requests generated by the parties concerned, which serve to bring the server to overload and eventually crash. Subsequently, the side from power and no longer be called as a consequence - the page is gagged.
with DoS attacks, the Internet Mafia has already attacked last year or unwanted consumer protection, and temporarily silenced.
are affected at the moment: http://konsumer.info , http://gegen-abzocke.com , http://www.autosecu4u.de and http: / / www.facto24.de
These pages have increased in recent times dealt with the issue of fraudulent webshops and warned consumers to fall for alleged bargain stores.
hundreds of consumers were warned, and be prevented from losing their money.
The police in Berlin had the opportunity to inform consumers on these sites where they could sign up to display wg. to report fraud and to advance the investigation. Subsequently, new information was used on bank accounts of fraudsters, and criminal charges were made.
The alleged webshops by the so-called "Romania-connection", a subsection of the so-called "Russian Mafia" in the jargon as "Vlad" called, operated and are currently very successful with their criminal activities. As the criminals of Eastern Europe, operating from the German authorities to determine and very difficult to arrest.
At present, the operators developed counter-strategies with their hosting and are sporadically available again.
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