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@jeffstone500
Jul 10, 2020 • 13 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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The trial for accused Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin is wrapping up today.

Whatever happens next, never forget the iconic photo he took by a Lamborghini in Red Square, which easily ranks among the most ridiculous hacker pictures ever. Image
Gotta confess I’ve been wasting time by revisiting all the other (accused) hackers + scammers who have posted totally bonkers pics of themselves since.

Black hoodies are officially out of style, people…
Our guy Maksim Boiko is a true legend in the world of ridiculous hacker photos. Boiko is a part-time rapper who calls himself PlinOfficial. DOJ says, actually, he’s a massive money launderer.

Either way, he loves Supreme shirts.

cyberscoop.com/maksim-boiko-h… ImageImage
Here’s Boiko’s Instagram, where he has thoughtful captions like “Call Your Bitch.”

instagram.com/plinofficial/?… Image
Here’s Oleksandr Ieremenko, a buddy of Nikulin who is accused of hacking the SEC.

The FBI says they have a video of Ieremenko driving himself and Nikulin to a “summit of bad motherfuckers” in a Moscow hotel. (I would die to see this video, btw...)

cyberscoop.com/nikulin-trial-… Image
Here’s Aleksei Stroganov, arrested by Russia’s FSB in March, allegedly for running a carding empire.

It’s a bizarre case, mostly because it involves the FSB enforcing cybercrime laws.

@geminiadvisory found his Facebook...
facebook.com/aleksei.stroga… Image
Very thankful that @thegumshoo remembered Evgeniy Bogachev.

He's a longtime resident of the FBI's Most Wanted List in connection with the GameOver Zeus malware. There's a $3 million reward for him. fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/e…
Here's another wild one (well, two) of Bogachev... ImageImage
Lest we forget Maksim Yakubets, another member of the Most Wanted List. He's accused of running "Evil Corp.," the gang that stole millions of dollars via banking malware.

(I swear this picture is real.)

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and here's Yakubets' wedding, alongside a picture from UK law enforcement showing another Evil Corp member, Andrey Plotnitskiy, holding...

yet another fat stack of cash.

(please don't hack me, dudes.) ImageImage
One more: Hushpuppi. He’s the Nigerian Instagram influencer -- 2.4 million followers! -- who the FBI says planned to launder $147 million stolen via email scams.

(I feel like the Eiffel Tower > Red Square, tbh) instagram.com/hushpuppi/?utm… ImageImage
I finally can add another alleged scammer to this list -->

Mr. Woodbery.

He was arrested in Dubai on charges that he stole $15 million from a company in Chicago. The real crime was the denim suit.

instagram.com/mrwoodbery/ ImageImage
Here's an outstanding picture of Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a Ukrainian man charged with using the REvil ransomware to extort US firms out of millions of dollars.

Vasinskyi was arrested at a Polish border stop in October. Here he is as a bright-eyed young man.

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Sep 12, 2022
just drank more coffee than any human ever should and i have some crazy details about how cops in Florida arrested an accused scammer connected to tens of millions of dollars in fraud

i can’t fit the details into a story so sharing some stuff here...
The FBI, working with police in Cyprus, had just made a big fuss about shutting down SSNDOBCLUB, a market for stolen financial information and social security numbers that made ~$22 million in crypto since 2017.

Good story on that here from June: techcrunch.com/2022/06/08/fbi…
But no one’s described exactly how they found SSNDOBCLUB’s servers or ID'd people involved.

A lot of these details are from a sealed document that's somehow still on Pacer.

(The market offered data about 24 million people, per DOJ.)
justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/s…
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Sep 28, 2021
Aleksei Burkov — the Russian scammer who's extradition to the US was enough for the Kremlin to arrest an Israeli woman on suspicious charges in apparent retaliation — is unexpectedly deported to Moscow.

No word from DOJ.

This is a big case to watch —> cyberscoop.com/aleksei-burkov…
Some major international intrigue going on here.

The US spent 4 years trying to covince Israeli courts to send Burkov to the states rather than Russia.

Moscow cops arrested an Israeli woman for allegedly carrying pot, which became a bone of contention for Putin/Netanyahu.
Ultimately Burkov landed in US custody and pleaded guilty to operating two cybercriminal forums, one of which advertised a database of voter information about 191 million Americans (cc @VickerySec).

14 months into a 9 year sentence, he's back in Russia. cyberscoop.com/aleksei-burkov…
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Jun 26, 2020
News: Aleksei Burkov, the Russian scammer whose extradition triggered a tense standoff between Putin and Netanyahu, was just sentenced to 9 years in a US prison.

The sentence includes time served, marking a win for the defense. From me + @snlyngaas.

cyberscoop.com/aleksei-burkov…
Burkov pleaded guilty in January to running a carding forum that where $20 million in fraud went down, and a more "elite" site where Russian hackers pooled their resources and traded things like a database of 191 million records on Americans.

cyberscoop.com/aleksei-burkov…
but the big thing about this case is that Russian cops arrested an Israeli woman with no connection to Burkov, and sentenced her to 7+ years in prison for supposedly carrying weed through Moscow.

At the time, US officials cited it as a troubling escalation from Moscow.
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Oct 9, 2019
New: DOJ just announced the arrest of Henry Kyle Frese, a DIA employee accused of leaking U.S. intelligence reports about a foreign country’s weapons systems to journalists in 2018 and 2019.

Frese worked as a counter-terrorism analyst at DIA until today.
Police intercepted phone calls, text messages & Twitter DMs between Henry Frese and the journalist, who prosecutors say was in a relationship with Frese (they seemed to base that idea on public social media information).
When asked if the reporters will be charged, one prosecutor said “At this point we’re just here to talk about what the alleged conduct is.” No further comment.

That makes 6 prosecutions against accused leakers in 2 years, assistant AG John Demers said on a conference call.
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May 14, 2019
CrowdStrike, which investigated the DNC breach, just filed to go public. In bold font in the RISK FACTOR section of the SEC filing, the company says "We have a history of losses and may not be able to achieve or sustain profitability in the future." sec.gov/Archives/edgar…
CrowdStrike lists its net losses over the past few fiscal years in all their gory detail...
$91.3 million in 2017
$135.5 million in 2018
$140.1 million in 2019.
CrowdStrike lists FireEye, Palo Alto Networks, Cylance, Carbon Black among its competitors.

"Many ... have greater financial, technical, marketing, sales, and other resources, greater name recognition, longer operating histories, and a larger base of customers than we do."
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