Author Blackhole exploit kit arrested

Yesterday, a news item appeared on Twitter that literally shook the security community. A researcher from Fox-IT pointed out that the person under the pseudonym “Paunch”, known as the author of the most “successful” and profitable set of exploits in the cybercrime market, Blackhole exploits was arrested Yesterday, this news seemed still not entirely verified, since somewhat contradictory information had been received publicly, for example, in one of the closed underground forums it was argued that this was not true. However, today this information has been confirmed . More detailed information is still not disclosed.

Troels Oerting, heading for the European Cybercrime Center, an armchair of Europol, confirmed that it was an agreement with an arrest. “But I can't say any more,” Oerting told TechWeek. Hesitating on the nature of the arrest.

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In addition to Blackhole, Paunch was engaged in support and Cool EK. As indicated by the kafeine security receiver , both services have already ceased to function normally. The obfuscation / encryption code service crypt [dot] am, supported by Paunch, is also unavailable.