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Alleged Co-Founder of Garantex Arrested in India

March 11, 2025 0 Comments aleksandr mira serda, aleksej besciokov, elliptic, garantex, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ransomware, u.s. department of justice, U.S. Secret Service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:49:02 +0000

Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2022 for facilitating tens of billions of dollars in money laundering by transnational criminal and cybercriminal organizations. Sources close to the investigation told KrebsOnSecurity the Lithuanian national Aleksej Besciokov, 46, was apprehended while vacationing on the coast of India with his family.

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Arrests in $400M SIM-Swap Tied to Heist at FTX?

February 1, 2024 0 Comments 0ktapus, A Little Sunshine, alphv ransomware, ars technica, blackcat ransomware, carter rohn, cisa, Data Breaches, elliptic, emily hernandez, FBI, ftx, kroll, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nick bax, powell sim swapping crew, r$, robert powell, scattered spider, SIM swapping, tom robinson, unciphered

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:41:37 +0000

Three Americans were charged this week with stealing more than $400 million in a November 2022 SIM-swapping attack. The U.S. government did not name the victim organization, but there is every indication that the money was stolen from the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which had just filed for bankruptcy on that same day.