The experts from the FBI and Interpol seized control of several proxy-servers of a large carding platform joker’s stash, thereby temporarily disrupting the operation of the site. Interpol officials told reporters that a coordinated police operation was still underway, but declined to comment on the details. Special landing pages, informing about the confiscation of domains,…
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A Russian software engineer was sentenced to eight years of prison for creating a utility for processing logs of the botnet
The US Department of Justice announced the sentencing of Russian software engineer Alexander Brovko. Back in 2019, 36-year-old Alexander Brovko was arrested in the Czech Republic, from where he was extradited to the United States in connection with a large-scale investigation into the activities of Russian hacker groups. According to the US government, Brovko was…
US authorities have seized 69 370 BTC related to SilkRoad
On November 3, the US Department of justice confiscated more than $1 billion worth of BTC. These coins were from the Silk Road – the most famous dark-market. They also confiscated the equivalent number in Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, and Bitcoin Gold. The Agency stressed that this was the largest amount in cryptocurrency ever confiscated…