Police investigators blame Algerian for coronavirus-themed phishing attacks
An Algerian web developer who claims to have “a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry” has launched coronavirus-themed email scams and helped build other hacking tools, according to a police intelligence report. Samir Djelal, who allegedly used the internet alias Cazanova Haxor, developed malicious software that was used in a phishing attack aimed at California city accounts in March 2020, states an internal report from the California Cyber Security Integration Center, a state organization meant to facilitate information sharing about digital threats. The threat profile, dated April 6, 2020, was made public as part of BlueLeaks, the 269 GB database containing data on police bulletins, training materials and other law resources taken from law enforcement fusion centers. Distributed Denial of Secrets, a WikiLeaks-style transparency group, appears to have obtained the trove of information after hackers breached Netsential, a Texas internet company that handles websites for police agencies throughout […]
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