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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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Actions Target Russian Govt. Botnet, Hydra Dark Market

April 7, 2022 0 Comments ars technica, asus, beserk bear, cyclops blink, dan goodin, dragonfly 2.0, FBI, federal security service, garantex, german federal criminal police office, gru, hydra market, main intelligence directorate, Ne'er-Do-Well News, notpetya, Ransomware, russian fsb, sandworm, trisis, triton, u.s. department of justice, u.s. department of treasury, voodoo bear, vpnfilter, watchguard, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 22:03:45 +0000

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has disrupted a giant botnet built and operated by a Russian government intelligence unit known for launching destructive cyberattacks against energy infrastructure in the United States and Ukraine. Separately, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Germany moved to decapitate “Hydra,” a billion-dollar Russian darknet drug bazaar that also helped to launder the profits of multiple Russian ransomware groups.