A group of 49 cyber-criminals located in Italy, Spain, Poland, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Georgia were nabbed by the authorities in a joint international investigation.
From a total of 58 properties, authorities recovered and seized laptops, hard disks, telephones, tablets, credit cards and cash, SIM cards, memory sticks, forged documents and bank account documents.
The operation was headed by Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and Eurojust, and was assisted by the Italian Polizia di Stato (Postal and Communications Police), the Spanish National Police, the Polish Police Central Bureau of Investigation, and supported by UK law enforcement bodies.
The arrested members are suspected of financial fraud to the tune of 6 million Euros. The group targeted medium and large European companies through malware and social engineering techniques.
The joint operation was coordinated from Europol's headquarters in The Hague.
