Britain’s National Crime Agency arrested six men in London on suspicion of laundering “tens of millions” for the Trickbot and Dridex banking malware gangs, the not-quite-police agency declared today.
The six, a mixture of British and Eastern European citizens, were arrested around a year ago, said the NCA as EU police agency Europol jointly boasted of a further 14 arrests in the political bloc, the US and Australia.
One, 32-year-old Arturs Zaharevics, is awaiting extradition to the US to stand trial on charges there. The other five have been released.
The public announcement comes days after Microsoft used US trademark law to target Trickbot’s command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, and a week after the US Cyber Command, ..
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