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Russia Sends Cybersecurity CEO to Jail for 14 Years

July 26, 2023 0 Comments evil corp, Fancy Bear, financial times, group-ib, gru, ilya sachkov, kaspersky lab, maksim yakubets, max seddon, ruslan stoyanov, sergei mikhailov, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:29:40 +0000

The Russian government today handed down a treason conviction and 14-year prison sentence on Iyla Sachkov, the former founder and CEO of one of Russia’s largest cybersecurity firms. Sachkov, 37, has been detained for nearly two years under charges that the Kremlin has kept classified and hidden from public view, and he joins a growing roster of former Russian cybercrime fighters who are now serving hard time for farcical treason convictions.

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Karakurt extortion group: Threat profile

June 14, 2022 0 Comments accenture security, advanced intel, anydesk, chainalysis, cirt, cisa, cobalt strike, conti ransomware, cyber incident response team, Cybercrime, cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, diavol, diavol ransomware, dridex, evil corp, FBI, federal bureau of investigation, FileZilla, karakurt, karakurt extortion group, karakurt lair, karakurt team, kimberly goody, mandiant, mega.io, MFA, mimikatz, multi-factor authentication, ncc, ransomhouse, Ransomware, ransomware syndicate, rclone, tetra defense, virtual private network, vpn, wall street journal

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:00:29 +0000

An obscure group called Karakurt has extorted organizations in the US and elsewhere. Know how to keep it away from your network.

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Russian Cybercrime Boss Burkov Pleads Guilty

January 27, 2020 0 Comments aleksei burkov, aqua, cardplanet, directconnection, evil corp, haaretz, k0pa, maksim viktorovich yakubets, naama issachar, Ne'er-Do-Well News, the times of israel, vladimir putin

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:21:46 +0000

Aleksei Burkov, an ultra-connected Russian hacker once described as “an asset of supreme importance” to Moscow, has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to running a site that sold stolen payment card data and to administering a highly secretive crime forum that counted among its members some of the most elite Russian cybercrooks.

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Inside ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace

December 16, 2019 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, aqua, aquamo, bugat, dridex, europol, evgeniy mikhailovich bogachev, evil corp, igor “enki” turashev, jabberzeus, luck12345, maksim v. yukabets, money mules, Ne'er-Do-Well News, slavik, target: small businesses, u.s. justice department, u.s. treasury department, zeus trojan

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 14:08:21 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international cybercrime network that called itself “Evil Corp” and stole roughly $100 million from businesses and consumers. As it happens, for several years KrebsOnSecurity closely monitored the day-to-day communications and activities of the accused and his accomplices. What follows is an insider’s look at the back-end operations of this gang.

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$5m bounty set on the alleged head of Evil Corp banking Trojan group

December 9, 2019 0 Comments andrey ghinkul, aqua, banking trojans, bitpaymer, bounty, bugat, data loss, dridex, emotet, evil corp, igor turashev, Law & order, maksim yakubets, malware, Ransomware, russia, security threats, smilex, ta505, threat group, zeus

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 10:53:32 +0000

Know where Maksim “Aqua” Yakubets is? Can you pry him out of Russia and his Lamborghinis? The biggest ever cybercrook reward awaits!<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/nU-wUMypTSA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>