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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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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

June 29, 2023 admin arkady bukh, dmitry volkov, dropbox, facct, fight against cybercrime technologies, formspring, Group-IB, ilya sachkov, lamarez, LinkedIn, Ne'er-Do-Well News, oleg tolstikh, oleksandr vitalyevich ieremenko, U.S. Secret Service, u.s. securities & exchange commission, yevgeniy nikulin, zl0m

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:30:08 +0000

Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of Justice. Experts say Kislitsin’s prosecution could soon put the Kazakhstan government in a sticky diplomatic position, as the Kremlin is already signaling that it intends to block his extradition to the United States.

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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.