How Does One Get Hired by a Top Cybercrime Gang?
Summary: The U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of Alla "Max" Witte, a 55-year-old Latvian national arrested Feb. 6 in Miami, who is alleged to have worked as a programmer for the Trickbot malware-as-a-service platform between 2018 and 2020. The indictment alleges she oversaw code for tracking authorized Trickbot users, controlling and deploying ransomware, obtaining ransom payments, and building a web panel to access a database of stolen credit card numbers and credentials.
Bottom line: Trickbot's hiring pipeline scoured fee-based Russian and Belarussian job sites for programmers, tested their coding skills, and read recruits in within about a year - a steady, cheap supply of developer talent that a security leader should assume is still running against their organization.
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