A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh returned a 10-count indictment, which was unsealed today, against Yakubets and Turashev, charging them with conspiracy, computer hacking, wire fraud, and bank fraud, in connection with the distribution of “Bugat,” a multifunction malware package designed to automate the theft of confidential personal and financial information, such as online banking credentials, from infected computers. Later versions of the malware were designed with the added function of assisting in the installation of ransomware.
According to the indictment, Bugat is a malware specifically crafted to defeat antivirus and other protective measures employed by victims. As the individuals behind Bugat improved the malware and added functionality, the name of the malware changed, at one point being called “Cridex,” and later “Dridex,” according to the indictment. Bugat malware was allegedly designed to automate the theft of confidential personal and financial information, such as online banking credentials, and facilitated the theft of confidential personal and financial information by a number of methods. For example, the indictment alleges that the Bugat malware allowed computer intruders to hijack a computer session and present a fake online banking webpage to trick a user into entering personal and financial information.
Which Democrat congress-critter did he work for?
many years ago, the Zeus virus was one of the worst ones around, nearly undetectable and nearly non-removable ...
i had a client whose stock brokerage firm called him up and said his laptop was infected; i was sure the call was a spoof, but when i looked into it, i found out that his brokerage had indeed (somehow) detected the infection.
i looked into a number of tools to detect and delete this thing, and while i was able to detect parts of it and had tools that claimed they had removed it, i wasn’t at all convinced that it was really gone, so i told my client that the only way i could be confident that i got it out was to copy his data files, perform a bare-metal re-install of his OS, drivers, re-install all his software from scratch, and copy his data back, which is what i ended up doing ... very glad to see the bastards that did this got caught ... now if they can just catch, convict, AND publicly execute all of those responsible for ransomware attacks, i’d be a happy camper ...
Getting back to paper banking would be a simple solution to stop people like Yakubets and Turashev. Even if they are behind the bars tomorrow, there will be hundreds of equally smart and bold people eager to do the same. On the other hand, public dismemberment on live TV may discourage some of them...