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…

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.

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. 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…

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…

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).

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.