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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

January 13, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, ad1@safe-mail.net, alexander valerievich grichishkin, andrey skvortsov, Breadcrumbs, cherepovets, constella intelligence, duanesburg central school district, grichishkin@gmail.com, icami$, icamis, icamis@4host.info, ika, jabberzeus, nameservers.ru, rescator, sal, salomon, spamdot, Spamit, tech@safe-mail.net

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:57:55 +0000

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges. But there is a fascinating and untold backstory behind the two Russian men involved, who co-ran Russia’s most popular spam forum for years.

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Administrator of RSOCKS Proxy Botnet Pleads Guilty

January 24, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, denis emelyantsev, IoT, iot botnets, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rsocks botnet, rsocks proxy, rusdot, rusdot socks server, spamdot

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:00:32 +0000

Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime violations in a California courtroom this week. The plea comes just months after Emelyantsev was extradited from Bulgaria, where he told investigators, “America is looking for me because I have enormous information and they need it.”

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

September 23, 2022 admin 24chasa.bg, Breadcrumbs, denis emelyantsev, denis kloster, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rsocks botnet, rsocks proxy, rusdot, spamdot

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 18:19:51 +0000

A 36-year-old Russian man recently identified by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely proprietor of the massive RSOCKS botnet has been arrested in Bulgaria at the request of U.S. authorities. At a court hearing in Bulgaria this month, the accused hacker requested and was granted extradition to the United States, reportedly telling the judge, “America is looking for me because I have enormous information and they need it.”

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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

June 22, 2022 admin 79136334444, A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, denis "neo" kloster, exploit, internet advertising omsk, istanx@gmail.com, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rsocks botnet, rusdot, sl mobpartners, spamdot, stanx, stanx@rusdot.com, u.s. department of justice, verified

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 13:06:34 +0000

Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. last week said they dismantled the “RSOCKS” botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. While the coordinated action did not name the Russian hackers allegedly behind RSOCKS, KrebsOnSecurity has identified its owner as a Russian man living abroad who also runs the world’s top Russian spamming forum.

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Why Were the Russians So Set Against This Hacker Being Extradited?

November 18, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, alexei burkov, Cybereason, directconnection, evgeniy mikhailovich bogachev, fox-it, fraudcrew, k0pa, mazafaka, Ne'er-Do-Well News, slavik, spamdot

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:19:10 +0000

The Russian government has for the past four years been fighting to keep 29-year-old alleged cybercriminal Alexei Burkov from being extradited by Israel to the United States. When Israeli authorities turned down requests to send him back to Russia — supposedly to face separate hacking charges there — the Russians then imprisoned an Israeli woman for seven years on trumped-up drug charges in a bid to trade prisoners. That effort failed as well, and Burkov had his first appearance in a U.S. court last week. What follows are some clues that might explain why the Russians are so eager to reclaim this young man.