Gwladys Laffitte 7:13 a.m., July 16, 2022
After several months of investigation, the police arrested a 22-year-old student in engineering school.
He is suspected by investigators of being a hacker, specializing in hacking SMEs.
Charges that led him to be indicted for extortion in an organized gang and criminal association.
It's a "beautiful affair" solved by the Paris cybercrime brigade.
She has just arrested a young hacker who was offering his services to hack SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises).
An investigation has been open since April by the courts, in particular for extortion in an organized gang and association of criminals.
Rare Skills
Faced with these accusations, the 22-year-old young man was indicted.
It had been raging since January 2019 and it was actually offering its services on international hacker forums.
Skills that the groups of cybercriminals who offered them did not have, that is to say, to provide malicious software, of the ransomware type.
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This engineering school student gave codes, hacked, to deploy this software in the computer systems of the SMEs he was targeting.
150 of them, French, but not only, were victims.
Between 1,000 and 1,500 euros per week
And this business was very lucrative since the young hacker was paid between 1,000 and 1,500 euros per week.
He was already known to the police for similar facts.
To arrest him, it took the careful surveillance of a dozen investigators to get their hands on him.