Nuclear Bot Author Arrested in Sextortion Case
Summary: French authorities arrested and charged two men, one identified by Le Parisien only as "Antoine I.," for running a sextortion email scheme that used malware to compromise at least 2,000 computers and netted at least one million Euros. Le Parisien reported the man surrendered in early December and was indicted on December 6 for extortion by organized gang, fraudulent access to a data processing system and money laundering; KrebsOnSecurity identified him as Augustin Inzirillo, who in 2017 admitted authoring the banking trojan Nuclear Bot.
What's compelling: A scam built on a lie - claiming to have recorded victims watching porn - pulled in at least a million Euros from 2,000 compromised machines, and the accused was taunting French investigators on Twitter while running custom TinyNuke campaigns against French and Polish bank customers one to three times a week.
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