At the beginning of this week, elements of the National Brigade of the Judicial Police, in cooperation with the General Directorate of National Territorial Surveillance, arrested six people, including a woman, on suspicion of being linked to a criminal network active in hacking customers’ bank data, stealing, and harming automated data processing systems.
The suspects were arrested in simultaneous operations in the cities of Laayoune, Casablanca and Agadir, following the completed informational experiences indicated their involvement in hacking bank accounts of customers in banking institutions and making fraudulent financial transfers, which targeted dozens of victims until this stage of the research.
The criminal method adopted by the suspects is determined by the use of an electronic phishing information server, which sends fraudulent messages to customers of banking agencies and asks them to send their account data to a fabricated site similar to the official website of a banking institution, and then they collect that data and use it to withdraw sums of money in a fraudulent manner. .
The searches carried out in the framework of this case resulted in the seizure of a group of information equipment, mobile phones and electronic devices, which are currently being subjected to the necessary digital expertise by the National Security Digital and Technological Effects Analysis Laboratory.
A judicial search has been opened with all the arrested persons under the supervision of the competent Public Prosecution, to determine all the criminal acts committed, and to reveal all the presumed victims, while the security operations and technical expertise are still continuing with the aim of arresting the rest of the contributors and participants in the commission of these criminal acts.
