A 38-year-old Russian crime gang leader arrested in ... Kyiv, Ukraine.
"The law enforcement action and resulting confusion about the identity of the detained has thrown the Russian cybercrime forum scene into disarray in recent weeks"
I'm guessing "disarray" means payments not posting? Bonus pool depleted?
> A 38-year-old Russian crime gang leader arrested in ... Kyiv, Ukraine.
That tracks. How many Russian cybercriminals can you think of who were arrested in Russia? Hence why a lot of malware checks for your keyboard's language - so the payload doesn't deploy in Russia, which _would_ actually get you arrested.
But if you're targeting people outside Russia, you're golden.
As for why he's in Kyiv? Maybe his girlfriend is from there. Maybe he prefers Kyiv to Moscow or whichever oblast he's from. Maybe he's hiding from the Russian draft?
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I'm guessing "disarray" means payments not posting? Bonus pool depleted?
That tracks. How many Russian cybercriminals can you think of who were arrested in Russia? Hence why a lot of malware checks for your keyboard's language - so the payload doesn't deploy in Russia, which _would_ actually get you arrested.
But if you're targeting people outside Russia, you're golden.
As for why he's in Kyiv? Maybe his girlfriend is from there. Maybe he prefers Kyiv to Moscow or whichever oblast he's from. Maybe he's hiding from the Russian draft?
Should it not rather be "the dark web"?
Or is cyber-crime so unprofitable?