Russian Police Raid May Have Taken Down MacDefender

A Russian Police raid of online payment giant ChronoPay may have taken down the MacDefender malware that plagued OS X users some time ago, reports KrebsonSecurity.

On June 23, Russian police arrested Pavel Vrublevsky, the co-founder of Russian online payment giant ChronoPay and a major player in the fake AV market.

Vrublevsky was arrested for allegedly hiring a hacker to launch denial of service attacks against ChronoPay's rivals in the payments processing business. His role as a pioneer in the fake AV industry has been well-documented on this blog and elsewhere.

In May, I wrote about evidence showing that ChronoPay employees were involved in pushing MacDefender - fake AV software targeting Mac users. ChronoPay later issued a statement denying it had any involvement in the MacDefender scourge.

MacRumors notes that the last variant of MacDefender was released on June 18th just days before the raid.

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