Sergey Medvedev

February 8, 2018

U.S. Arrests 13, Charges 36 in ‘Infraud’ Cybercrime Forum Bust

This post was originally published on this siteThe U.S. Justice Department announced charges on Wednesday against three dozen individuals thought to be key members of ‘Infraud,” a long-running cybercrime forum that federal prosecutors say cost consumers more than a half billion dollars. In conjunction with the forum takedown, 13 alleged Infraud members from the United States and six other countries were arrested. A screenshot of the Infraud forum, circa Oct. 2014. Like most other crime forums, it had special sections dedicated to vendors of virtually every kind of cybercriminal goods or services imaginable. Click to enlarge. Started in October 2010, […]
June 27, 2020

Russian Cybercrime Boss Burkov Gets 9 Years

This post was originally published on this siteA well-connected Russian hacker once described as “an asset of supreme importance” to Moscow was sentenced on Friday to nine years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to running a site that sold stolen payment card data, and to administering a highly secretive crime forum that counted among its members some of the most elite Russian cybercrooks. Alexei Burkov, seated second from right, attends a hearing in Jerusalem in 2015. Photo: Andrei Shirokov / Tass via Getty Images. Alexsei Burkov of St. Petersburg, Russia admitted to running CardPlanet, a site that sold […]