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US offers $2.5M reward for Belarusian man involved in mass malware distribution

Security Affairs

The indictment alleges that from 2013 to 2022, Kadariya played a key role in distributing the Angler Exploit Kit, which was used to spread various malware, including ransomware, through malvertising and other methods. Kadariya has been indicted for distributing the Angler Exploit Kit and other malware to millions of victims.

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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

Krebs on Security

.” The DOJ’s statement doesn’t mention that RSOCKS has been in operation since 2014, when access to the web store for the botnet was first advertised on multiple Russian-language cybercrime forums. “Something new was required and I decided to leave Omsk and try to live in the States,” Kloster wrote in 2013.

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U.S. sanctioned virtual currency exchanges Cryptex and PM2BTC for facilitating illegal activities

Security Affairs

government sanctioned the virtual currency exchanges Cryptex and PM2BTC for facilitating cybercrime and money maundering. The authorities believe that these exchanges facilitate the laundering of proceeds from cybercrime. ” reads the press release published by DoJ. data breaches. This included over $158 million from fraud, $8.8

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Police seized 50,000 Bitcoin from operator of the now-defunct piracy site movie2k

Security Affairs

It was operating between 2008 and 2013. In 2013, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) shut down the website due to concerns related to copyright infringement. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, Apple)

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Notorious Finnish Hacker sentenced to more than six years in prison

Security Affairs

“Finnish prosecutors quickly zeroed in on a suspect: Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki , a notorious criminal hacker convicted of committing tens of thousands of cybercrimes before he became an adult. .” reads the post published by Brian Krebs. After being charged with the attack in October 2022, Kivimäki fled the country.

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Alleged Extortioner of Psychotherapy Patients Faces Trial

Krebs on Security

In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted in 2015 of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a botnet and calling in bomb threats.

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Accused Russian RSOCKS Botmaster Arrested, Requests Extradition to U.S.

Krebs on Security

A native of Omsk, Russia, Kloster came into focus after KrebsOnSecurity followed clues from the RSOCKS botnet master’s identity on the cybercrime forums to Kloster’s personal blog , which featured musings on the challenges of running a company that sells “security and anonymity services to customers around the world.”