US routs cyber crime nest

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:43:12 GMT

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The US Federal Trade Commission has shut down an American ISP allegedly involved in distributing spam to and child pornography.

US FTC ordered the closure of Pricewert LLC, which had done business under a variety of names including 3FN and APS Telecom.

Pricewert actively recruited and colludes with criminals seeking to distribute illegal, and malicious electronic contents including child pornography, spyware, viruses and phishing.

The FTC alleges that the defendant advertised its services in the darkest corners of the Internet, including a forum established to facilitate communication between criminals.

Command-and-control servers hosted by Pricewert controlled more than 4,500 malicious software programs such as keystroke logging, password stealing, and data stealing.