Six persons have been arrested from here for allegedly using malware to lock up computers of American and Canadian citizens and then demanding money to fix it, police said on Friday.
The six accused ran a fake call centre in Noida's Sector 2 and were held Thursday by a joint team of police and cyber cell, they said.
They have been identified as Prabhat Sinha, Atul Verma, Vijay Sharma, Deepak Tiwari, Suresh Goswami, Jahazeb Pasha, and all of them are IT experts, they added.
The accused were running the racket under a firm named Code Mevan, Superintendent of Police (SP), Noida city, Sudha Singh told reporters
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