Officials in Pakistan have arrested 21 persons accused of operating “Hurtsendra“Once popular spam and malware dissemination service that operates for more than a decade. Crime groups were organized to the chief customer for heartcarter who tried to pay the victim companies to a third party, and its alleged proprietors were publicly recognized by Krebsanusurity in 2021, when they were infected with malware.
Some of the core developers and sellers of the heartsnder working at one work in 2021. Wecodesolutions are at the center of the picture of the group boss Rameez Shahzad (in sunglasses), which was posted by employee Burhan ul Haq, which was painted only for Shahzad’s right.
A Report From Pakistani media outlet Dawn The states said that the officials there have arrested 21 people, who is a spam delivery service to operate the heartsnder, whose homepage openly targeted the fishing kit to users of various internet companies, including Microsoft 365, Yahoo, AOL, ICLOT, ICLOD and ID.Meme of Pakistan National cyber crime investigating agency (NCCIA) allegedly raided the city of Bahria and Multan in Lahore on 15 and 16 May.
The NCCIA told reporters that the group’s equipment alone involved more than $ 50m in loss in the United States, European authorities investigated 63 additional cases.
“It was not just a scam operation – it was essentially a cybercrime university that strengthened fraudsters globally,” NCCIA Director Abdul Ghaffer Said in a press briefing.
In January 2025, the FBI and Dutch police seized technical infrastructure for cybercrime service, which was marketed under Brands Hartsender, Fudpage And Fadtool (And many other “fud” variations). The “FUD” bit “stands perfectly un-detectable”, and it refers to cybercrime resources that will avoid detection by safety devices such as antivirus software or anti-spam devices.
The FBI states that these services were bought by transferred crime groups, which were mainly used to run the trade email agreement (BEC) plans, in which cybercrime actors cheated the aggrieved companies to pay third party.
Don told that the arrested people are involved Rameez ShahzadHartsnder Cyber Crime Business alleged Ringolder, recently operated under the Pakistani Front Company VicodislationMr. Shahzad was nominated for a series of notable operational safety mistakes in the story of 2021 Krebsansecurity that highlighted his identity and Facebook pages, in which employees were presented for group photographs and socialized on work -related outings.
Before turning its operations behind wecodesolutions, Shahzad and others operated this month as a web hosting group. The manipulatorsKrebssnasurity first wrote about The Manipulators in May 2015, mainly because at that time his advertisements were blankets to many popular cybercrime forums, and because they were quite open and they were Brezen about what they were doing – even in real life.
For some time in 2019, the manipulators failed to renew their core domain names – manipulators (.) Com -with the company’s many business functions. That domain was quickly scooped Skyla IntelA cyber intelligence firm who specializes in connecting cyber criminals to the identity of his real life. Soon after, Skyla began to receive large amounts of email correspondence for the owners of the group.
In 2024, Domantools.com The web-hosted version of the heartsnder found that the extraordinary information of user information was leaked to informal users, including customer credentials and email records from heartsnder employees. Damenols say the malware infection on Manipulators PCs “exposed the giant health of the group membership, operation and status in the broad underground economy as well as the vast people of the account related to the account.”
Shahzad allegedly used surname “Sam Raza“An identity that has contacted Krebsnsurity several times in the last decade, which is with the demands of removing the stories published about the group. SAIM RAZA Identification recently approached the author in November 2024, claiming that he had left a cyber crime industry and changed a new leaf after a brush with Pakistani police.
Among the suspects arrested, Ramiz Shahzad, Muhammad Aslam (father of Rameez), Atif Hussain, Muhammad Omar Irshad, Yasir Ali, Syed Sam Ali Shah, Muhammad Novashar, Burhanul Haq, Adnan Munwar, Abdul Moider, Hasanan Hasad, Bilal Hasma, Bilal Hasma, Bilal Hasma, Bilal Hasmas, Bilal Hasmas, Bilal Hasmas, Bilal Hasmal, Bilal Hasmal, Bilal Hamad Nawaz.
