Police arrests distributor of JokerOTP password-stealing bot
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Dutch police arrested a 21-year-old man for distributing the JokerOTP bot, which steals one-time passwords, marking the third arrest in this cybercrime investigation.
Source: Help Net Security
The Dutch National Police arrested a 21-year-old man from Dordrecht, a city in the Western Netherlands, as part of a cybercrime investigation by Team Cybercrime Oost-Brabant. The suspect is believed to have distributed a tool known as JokerOTP, a bot used to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs) used to secure online accounts and financial transactions. Police suspect the Dordrecht resident of selling the bot through a Telegram account and of holding license keys associated with it. This marks the third arrest in the investigation. Police arrested the developer and a co-developer of JokerOTP in 2025. Full Story