Ruslan Stoyanov – Computer Security Articles

Russia Sends Cybersecurity CEO to Jail for 14 Years

July 26, 2023 admin 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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U.S., U.K. Sanction 7 Men Tied to Trickbot Hacking Group

February 9, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, adam meyers, christina svechinskaya, CrowdStrike, dyre, Group-IB, ilya sachkov, Intel 471, kaspersky lab, michael debolt, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ransomware, Ruslan Stoyanov, Sergey Mikhaylov, trickbot, u.s. department of treasury, vitaly "bentley" kovalev, wizard spider

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 20:23:58 +0000

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “Trickbot,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. The U.S. Department of the Treasury says the Trickbot group is associated with Russian intelligence services, and that this alliance led to the targeting of many U.S. companies and government entities.

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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.

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A Shakeup in Russia’s Top Cybercrime Unit

January 28, 2017 admin chronopay, crutop, FBI, FSB, Humpty Dumpty, idefense, Indrik, kaspersky lab, Kimberly Zenz, King Servers, Other, pavel vrublevsky, Ruslan Stoyanov, Sergey Mikhaylov, Spam Nation, ThreatConnect, Шалтай-Болтай

A chief criticism I heard from readers of my book, Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime, was that it dealt primarily with petty crooks involved in petty crimes, while ignoring more substantive security issues like government surveillance and cyber war. But now it appears that the chief antagonist of Spam Nation is at the dead center of an international scandal involving the hacking of U.S. state electoral boards in Arizona and Illinois, the sacking of Russia’s top cybercrime investigators, and the slow but steady leak of unflattering data on some of Russia’s most powerful politicians.