Indictmentseverity: High2019-12-05
DOJ indicts Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev over Bugat/Dridex scheme
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Actor
Russian cybercrime syndicate publicly attributed by the U.S. Treasury OFAC in December 2019, which sanctioned founder Maksim Yakubets. Operators of the Dridex banking trojan, the BitPaymer and Wasted…
Summary
A federal grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania returned a 10-count indictment charging Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev with conspiracy, computer hacking, wire fraud and bank fraud tied to the Bugat / Dridex / Kridex malware family. Yakubets, alias 'aqua', was identified as the leader of Evil Corp; the State Department concurrently announced a $5 million Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program bounty for information leading to his arrest or conviction — the largest such reward for a cybercriminal to that date.
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