The police in Poland arrested three Ukrainian nationals for allegedly trying to wreck IT techniques within the nation utilizing hacking gear and for acquiring “pc information of explicit significance to nationwide protection.”
The three males, aged between 39 and 43, couldn’t clarify why they have been carrying the digital gadgets. They now face fees of fraud, pc fraud, and possession of gadgets and software program supposed for prison exercise.
Based on the police, the Ukrainians “have been visibly nervous” when officers stopped them and stated they have been heading to Lithuania whereas touring round Europe.
“Officers totally searched the automobile’s inside. They discovered suspicious objects that might even be used to intrude with the nation’s strategic IT techniques, breaking into IT and telecommunications networks,” the Polish police says in a press launch.
“Throughout the investigation, officers seized a spy system detector, superior FLIPPER hacking gear, antennas, laptops, a lot of SIM playing cards, routers, moveable onerous drives, and cameras.” [machine translated]
Throughout questioning, the three people pretended to not perceive extra particular questions concerning the seized gear.
The Flipper Zero system is a transportable software for pentesting and {hardware} hacking supposed for training and safety analysis functions. It could actually work together with a spread of radio frequencies, seize information delivered this manner, or jam radio communication.
The system can learn or emulate RDIF, NFC, and Bluetooth indicators, and emulate enter gadgets, resembling a keyboard and mouse, which can be utilized to execute scripts.
Because of the system’s intensive capabilities and comparatively low value, it has develop into fashionable amongst cybersecurity fanatics and for malicious functions. Whereas many different gadgets can carry out the identical perform, widespread media consideration and its use in assaults, has led to bans in Brazil, Canada, and on the Amazon on-line market.
One other system was a K19 RF/GS detection software used for locating hidden surveillance gear. It’s marketed as being succesful to detect wi-fi indicators (RF), GPS trackers, hidden cameras (through laser/IR), and robust magnetic fields.
The Ukrainians claimed to be IT specialists, and the police in Poland are contemplating a number of situations for the rationale the three males got here to the nation.
Though the info on the seized storage gadgets was encrypted, officers from the nation’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime (CBZC) have been in a position to acquire proof.
Authorities haven’t shared any particulars concerning the cyber actions of the three males however introduced the fees towards them and detained them for 3 months pending trial.
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