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Prison sentence for a cybercriminal for attacking the websites of public entities in Colombia

A judge sent Andrés Felipe Cardoso, alias “Orgón”, to jail, a cybercriminal who would have accessed and affected the websites of public and private entities in Colombia to sabotage them, the Prosecutor’s Office reported this Friday.

Cardoso, as reported by the prosecution in a statement, is linked to the group calling itself Anonymous Colombia.

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The investigation made it possible to establish that the hacker “He entered the internet pages of various institutions and modified the visual appearance as part of a criminal plan of sabotage and discredit”.

The action links it to 12 different events that occurred in 2020, in which alias “orgone” affected city halls, municipal ombudsmen, transit institutes, automotive diagnostic centers and a Regional Autonomous Corporation in tolima, huila and North of Santanderamong others.

The prosecution charged the detainee with the crimes of abusive access to a computer system, computer damage, and illegitimate obstruction of a computer system or telecommunication network.

However, Cardoso did not accept the charges and, therefore, was sent to jail where he will await trial for the crimes charged by the prosecution.

The hacker collective anonymous in Colombia It has attacked several times and its targets have been State entities, the Army website, and it has even threatened to attack Internet pages that promote bullfighting or any other manifestation related to bullfighting.

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Source: Elcomercio

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