Russian-led cybercrime network dismantled in global operation

[Eugene]

DU thread from August 2023: FBI announces it has dismantled global network of hacked computers used in major fraud scheme

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/29/politics/fbi-dismantled-network-hacked-computers/index.html

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Source: The Guardian

Russian-led cybercrime network dismantled in global operation

Arrest warrants issued for ringleaders after investigation by police in Europe and North America

Lisa O'Carroll and Kate Connolly in Berlin
Fri 23 May 2025 17.33 BST
First published on Fri 23 May 2025 17.06 BST

European and North American cybercrime investigators say they have dismantled the heart of a malware operation directed by Russian criminals after a global operation involving British, Canadian, Danish, Dutch, French, German and US police.

International arrest warrants have been issued for 20 suspects, most of them living in Russia, by European investigators while indictments were unsealed in the US against 16 individuals.

Those charged include the alleged leaders of the Qakbot and Danabot malware operations, including Rustam Rafailevich Gallyamov, 48, who lives in Moscow and Aleksandr Stepanov, 39, AKA JimmBee and Artem Aleksandrovich Kalinkin, 34, AKA Onix, both of Novosibirsk, Russia, the US Department of Justice said.

Cyber-attacks aimed at destabilising governments or simple theft and blackmail are becoming increasingly pernicious. The high-street retailer Marks & Spencer is one of the most high-profile and recent victims in the UK this month.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/23/russian-led-cybercrime-network-dismantled-in-global-operation

[jls4561]

1. US intelligence (oxymoron nowadays) did, however, allow them to keep Pete Hegseth's phone number,

as long as they keep paying his bar tab.