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An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

November 14, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, aleksandr ermakov, chronopay, data breaches, dmitri golubov, Helkern, Home Depot breach, hydra market, mikemike, mikhail lenin, mikhail shefel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pavel vrublevsky, peter vrublevsky, Pharma Wars, sprut, sugar ransomware, target breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:45:32 +0000

In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity revealed the real-life identity of Rescator, the nickname used by a Russian cybercriminal who sold more than 100 million payment cards stolen from Target and Home Depot between 2013 and 2014. Moscow resident Mikhail Shefel, who confirmed using the Rescator identity in a recent interview, also admitted reaching out because he is broke and seeking publicity for several new money making schemes.

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Former Russian Cybersecurity Chief Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison

February 26, 2019 admin chronopay, Dmitry Dokuchaev, Georgi Fomchenkov, kaspersky lab, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pavel vrublevsky, Pharma Wars, Ruslan Stoyanov, Sergei Mikhailov

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:43:41 +0000

A Russian court has handed down lengthy prison terms for two men convicted on treason charges for allegedly sharing information about Russian cybercriminals with U.S. law enforcement officials. The men — a former Russian cyber intelligence official and an executive at Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab — were reportedly prosecuted for their part in an investigation into Pavel Vrublevsky, a convicted cybercriminal who ran one of the world’s biggest spam networks and was a major focus of my 2014 book, Spam Nation.

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Carding Kingpin Sentenced Again. Yahoo Hacker Pleads Guilty

December 1, 2017 admin bulba, Dmitry Dokuchaev, Karim Baratov, Karim Taloverov, kaspersky lab, nCux, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Pharma Wars, RBS Worldpay hack, Roman Seleznev, Ruslan Stoyanov, Sergei Mikhailov, Yahoo hack

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 01:15:15 +0000

Roman Seleznev, a Russian man who is already serving a record 27-year sentence in the United States for cybercrime charges, was handed a 14-year sentence this week by a federal judge in Atlanta for his role in a credit card and identity theft conspiracy that prosecutors say netted more than $50 million. Separately, a Canadian national has pleaded guilty to charges of helping to steal more than a billion user account credentials from Yahoo.