Interview With the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession
Summary: In April 2013, Krebs received more than a gram of pure heroin by U.S. mail, sent as part of a plot by Ukrainian cybercrime forum administrator Sergei "Fly" Vovnenko to have him arrested for drug possession. Vovnenko was arrested in Italy in summer 2014 on identity theft and botnet charges, pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft and wire fraud, served a 41-month U.S. sentence, and was deported.
Why it matters: Vovnenko was caught because he forwarded his fiancée's email to an account whose password he reused for a hacked cybercrime forum, exposing wedding shipping addresses and her full name to investigators. The operator of a forum that turned hacked card data into cash was undone by credential reuse, the same failure that exposes organizations every day.
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