January 7, 2011 20:14
(AGI) - Rome, January 7 - Millecento sites online to unsuspecting companies (one hundred only in Italy), "infected" with child pornography without their knowledge offered for sale through the links sent by normal spamming techniques. It 's the discovery made by the police and postal communications, with the assistance of Europol has cleaned up the servers in 30 countries and rebuilt the whole, advanced supply chain technology to web-masquerating. The investigation, coordinated by the prosecutor in Venice ("Venice Carnival" the name of the operation), have started in early 2009 by an indication of a grandmother, surfing on the net looking for a present for his grandchildren, he clicked on the address of a shop to find himself on a website of child sexual abuse. At first suspicion had focused on an Italian server but investigators soon realized they were dealing with a criminal group, the chances are 'originating in Eastern Europe, that it violated the sites of companies with malware "innocent "in order to redirect users to child pornography websites. "To end up being targeted by hackers - said in a press conference the vice quaestor added Elvira D'Amato, head of the National Centre for the fight against child pornography on the net - Ended up mostly 'small and medium-sized, like beauty farm, farm houses and gymnasiums, lack basic computer security: once alerted, the respective managers have worked closely with us to clean up the server. "L' investigation, headed by Attorney Charles North, and 'work in progress and promises important developments: the objective, not easy, and' to rebuild the financial flows of money used by pedophiles to buy, mostly 'credit card , photographs and videos that the police will not hesitate to describe as "horrific: Hundreds transactions intercepted dozens of buyers reported. Among the investigative hypothesis, that the criminal group has produced in their material related to child abuse, material subsequently sold through the sites 'infected'. "It 's so important that a' wide, by extra-national borders - has admitted D'Amato - 'was composed by reports of Internet users. Their help supplement our daily monitoring of the network and helps us to discover in real time all the submerged web tricks criminals: 'cause if the repression and' important, prevention and the 'even more'. And our first objective is to prevent people completely unaware they can run into hard content, or even download them to view it involuntarily and without even knowing it.
Italy, Venice , Europol, Police , Nordio Carlo, Elvira D'Amato
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