Reply to post: Re: One down, God knows how many to go

Dutch cops collar fella accused of crafting and flogging Office macro nasties to cyber-crooks

MonkeyCee

Re: One down, God knows how many to go

The Dutch cyber cops are very very VERY good. Many of the busted dark web souks are done by the Dutchies gathering intelligence that they pass to the relevant authorities.

They also recognise cyber cash (and digital goods in general) as having the same legal status as real world goods. If you've not declared it, it's hiding assets. Stealing someone's steam account is the same as if you'd nicked the physical copies.

Gives them a legal route to monitor crypto transactions, among other things.

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