News Russian pro basketball player gets the cuffs for allegedly being a member of ransomware gang — lawyer claims client "sucks at computers and is not...

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Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin is suspected of acting as a ransomware negotiator for the ransomware gang behind some of the attacks in the U.S. between 2020 and 2022.

Russian pro basketball player gets the cuffs for allegedly being a member of ransomware gang — lawyer claims client "sucks at computers and is not... : Read more

 

[lmcnabney]

Russia doesn't prosecute ransomware syndicates. That is a money maker that brings in dollars to stimulate their economy. This person obviously got sideways with somebody important.

 

[93QSD5]

Russia doesn't prosecute ransomware syndicates. That is a money maker that brings in dollars to stimulate their economy. This person obviously got sideways with somebody important.

Only the west prosecutes cyber criminals. Matter of fact, you aren't even allow strike back (hackbacks are illegal in most places).

(Except if you're NVIDIA, then the feds will gladly turn a blind eye for breaching and executing ransomware on the attackers machine).
Barely a dime is invested in cyber security because there are no consequences.

The politicans don't care (let alone understand what a computer is).
The people care even less than their elected politicans. Neither about critical or personal data.

Or in computer science terms: Garbage in, garbage out.

Meanwhile Russia will pay this gang and (if he's involved) a fat paycheck & infrastructure upgrades as long as the targets aren't local.

Russian ransomware groups practically always seem to check for indication of "russianness" (be it address or keyboard/language settings ≠ belarussian/russian) on the victim's machine before exploitation.

 

[3ogdy]

That Russian should get the cuffs for other things. Like indifference and ignorance...
Moving on... doesn't that mean, Kaspersky might be facing the same issues?

 

[haux]

Send him home to join the rest of his comrades at the front. More meat for the grinder.

I'm confused. If they sent him back to Russia he would just get a medal...

 

[DS426]

Only the west prosecutes cyber criminals. Matter of fact, you aren't even allow strike back (hackbacks are illegal in most places).

(Except if you're NVIDIA, then the feds will gladly turn a blind eye for breaching and executing ransomware on the attackers machine).

Yeah, that was pretty bizarre when I read the news articles that nVidia hacked those kids. I could almost understand it being done in secret to no public knowledge, but they seemed to boldly proclaim it.

The FBI has conducted some known hack-backs, but it's very limited in scope and intent, e.g. appearing to aim at turning off the tap so-to-speak and retrieving decryption keys.

I think the worry is that broadly allowing hack-backs would result in huge escalatory hacking situations where there would be a lot of collateral damage to individuals, orgs, and things not even pertaining to the original grudge, attack, or counter-attack.