Inside ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace
Summary: The U.S. Justice Department offered a $5 million bounty for Maksim V. Yakubets, a 32-year-old Russian known as "aqua," accused of leading the Evil Corp cybercrime network that stole roughly $100 million from businesses and consumers using the JabberZeus and Bugat (Dridex) banking malware. The Treasury Department said Yakubets was working for Russia's FSB as of 2017 and was seeking a license to work with Russian classified information, and it sanctioned him and 16 accused associates.
Why it matters: The accused leader of a $100 million theft operation was reportedly pursuing FSB clearance to handle Russian classified information, which puts a state intelligence service behind a gang that recruited money mules through ordinary work-at-home job postings.
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