Dec 17, 2019 21:00:00

The FBI is going to arrange for a prize head of over 500 million yen to be nominated internationally, showing off the money earned from cybercrime and playing around

The FBI announced that it has nominated two masterminds of an international cybercrime organization known as ' Evil Corp ', and has published a face photo and detailed profile. Two people are said to have caused the largest damage ever by using an online bank fraud tool called `

` Dridex '', and a reward of up to $ 5 million (about 550 million yen) for leading providers of information It is said that money will be paid.

Russian National Charged with Decade-Long Series of Hacking and Bank Fraud Offenses Resulting in Tens of Millions in Losses and Second Russian National Charged with Involvement in Deployment of “Bugat” Malware | OPA | Department of Justice
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-national-charged-decade-long-series-hacking-and-bank-fraud-offenses-resulting-tens

Treasury Sanctions Evil Corp, the Russia-Based Cybercriminal Group Behind Dridex Malware | US Department of the Treasury
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm845

International law enforcement operation exposes the world's most harmful cyber crime group-National Crime Agency
https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/international-law-enforcement-operation-exposes-the-world-s-most-harmful-cyber-crime-group

'Dridex', an online bank fraud tool, also known as 'Bugat' or 'Cridex', is a malicious program that steals money from online bank accounts by infecting PCs with malware starting from spam emails. Initially it was a type of Trojan horse-type malware, but in recent years it has also been a ransomware . Dridex is said to have been created by a criminal organization called `` Evil Corp '', and the damage is in more than 40 countries, hundreds of banks and financial institutions, and the total damage is at least 100 million dollars (about 11 billion yen) It is estimated.

Investigators were following the footsteps of Evil Corp, which had been active for more than 10 years since May 2009, but in November 2019, 32-year-old Russian

Maksim Viktorovich Yakubets is the mastermind of Evil Corp. Identified and filed criminal charges in the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. In response, the FBI and the U.S. Department of State have jointly nominated Yakubets as a suspect and announced that they will pay up to $ 5 million in rewards to leading providers of information leading to arrest or conviction. did.

Yakubets is called 'AQUA' on the Internet, and it played a central role in Evil Corp, such as malware development, money laundering, and organization management. In addition to Dridex, it has also been revealed that

Zeus , a Trojan-type virus, was used to obtain multiple frauds and unauthorized acquisition of personal information.

Igor Olegovich Turashev, a 38-year-old Russian, was also prosecuted at the same time as Yakubets. Turashev, who worked under many names such as “Enki, Parasurama, Nintutu, Vzalupkin, Tigrr, Tigrruz”, is also suspected of being involved in numerous cybercrimes as an executive of Evil Corp.

“Yakubets is a true 21st-century criminal who has harmed the whole world with keyboards and mice,” said Yakubets at the top of the FBI cybercriminals list. I want to sit down. ' “For more than a decade, Yakubets and Turashev have led the world's most sophisticated multinational cybercrime syndicates. They ’ve been the most widespread malware outbreak in history. It ’s one of the cyber crimes, ”he stressed.

Yakubets, who became an international inquirer with this wanted arrangement, is protected by the Russian government, so it seems that the road to actual detention is steep. The Office of Foreign Assets Management (OFAC) of the United States Treasury said, “Yakubets has been working for the Russian Federal Security Agency , the leading intelligence agency in Russia since 2017, and, as of April 2018, to handle Russian confidential information. 'It has been confirmed that Yakubets was a Russian hacker hacker.'

The British National Crime Control Agency (NCA) , which has been investigating with the FBI, said that if Yakubets leaves Russia's protection, he will be immediately arrested and handed over to the United States. As well as revealing, we have released the full game of Evil Corp that was revealed by the investigation.

The movie that NCA posted on Twitter shows Yakubets riding a custom-built luxury car and a pet lion.

Maksim Yakubets employed dozens of people to run his operation from the basements of Moscow cafes.

Russian Igor Turashev Fellow, Aged 38, Who Is Yakubets' Administrator And Controls The Dridex Malware, Has Also Been Indicted For Cyber Crime Offences. Pic.Twitter.Com/vQMbdTOaX0

— National Crime Agency (NCA) (@NCA_UK) December 5, 2019

The number of Lamborghini owned by Yakubets includes the word “thief” in Russian. Yakubets also named a wedding in 2017, but the cost was said to have been £ 250,000 (about 36 million yen).

Yakubets drives a customised Lamborghini supercar with a personalized number plate that translates to 'Thief' & spent over a quarter of a million pounds on his wedding.

Is Now Subject He To A $ 5 Million US State Department Reward -. The Largest Ever Reward For A Cyber Criminal Pic.Twitter.Com/a7s9tKFutt

— National Crime Agency (NCA) (@NCA_UK) December 5, 2019

There is also a picture of Evil Corp's team wearing brackets while holding a wad.

Evil Corp created and deployed malware causing financial losses totalling hundreds of millions of pounds in the UK alone.

NCA Began Working The With Multiple Partners To Investigate One Of The Group'S Core Malware Strains, Dridex, In 2014. Pic.Twitter.Com/gu6NR640qe

— National Crime Agency (NCA) (@NCA_UK) December 5, 2019

FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich said, “We will never forget Yakubets et al.'S wrongdoing and will always be judged under the law no matter where they hide,” We expressed our determination to secure it.