Head of counterintelligence of a Russian department Federal Security Service Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced last week to nine years in prison for accepting $1.7 million in bribes for ignoring the activities of a Russian cybercriminal group that hacked thousands of e-commerce sites.The protection scheme came to light in 2022, when Russian authorities arrested six members of the gang, which had been involved in crimes such as Trump’s dump.
A now defunct dress shop that sold stolen credit cards and quoted 45’s likeness and name.
It is reported Recorda Russian court last week sentenced former FSB officials to Grigory Tsarigorodtsev Received $1.7 million in bribes from a cybercrime syndicate that was looking for a “rooftop,” a well-placed, corrupt law enforcement official who could be counted on to ignore their illegal hacking activities and to challenge authorities if caught intervention.
Tsarigorodtsev is the head of the counterintelligence department of the Russian Federal Security Service in Perm, Russia. In February 2022, Russian authorities arrested six men in the Perm region, accusing them of selling stolen payment card information.They also seized a number of carding shops run by the gang, including forum store, Sky Scamand Trump’s dumpa popular scam shop that references the 45th president’s likeness and promises to “make credit card fraud popular again.”
All the domains seized in the raid were registered by a company called “IT Consultants” in the city of Perm. Get Network LLCwhose partial ownership is Artem Zaitsev — one of six men arrested. Zaitsev is reportedly a well-known programmer whose company provides services and rentals to local FSB field offices.
Russian authorities seized the domain in 2022 to dump messages left by users for Trump.
Russian news sites reported that after the hacker group’s arrest, Tsarigorodtsev became a little too interested in the case, raising suspicions among internal affairs officials at Russia’s Federal Security Service. The former FSB agent reportedly assured the hackers that he could hand over the case and they would be released soon.
But when the promised freedoms didn’t materialize, the four defendants knocked down the scheme’s walls and ripped off their own roofs. The FSB arrested Tsaregorodtsev and confiscated $154,000 in cash, 100 gold bars, real estate and expensive cars.
At Tsarigorodtsev’s trial, his lawyers argued that their client was not guilty of bribery per se, but that he did admit to fraud because he was ultimately unable to fully perform the services for which he was hired.
Russian news media Kommersant All four collaborators have been put on probation or released through labor, the report said.Zaitsev was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison, the defendant Alexander Kovalev Got four years.
In 2017, KrebsOnSecurity analyzed Trump dumps and found that contact addresses listed on the site were linked to email addresses used to register more than a dozen domains that looked like many e-commerce sites A legitimate Javascript call typically made to process a transaction — such as “js-link[dot]su,” “js-stat[dot]su” and “js-mod[dot]yes.
A search for these malicious domains revealed a 2016 report from RiskIQ that showed these domains featured prominently in a series of hacking campaigns targeting e-commerce sites. According to RiskIQ, the attacks targeted online stores running outdated and unpatched versions of shopping cart software. Magento, power front and Open shopping cart.
These shopping cart flaws allow scammers to install “web browser,” a type of malicious JavaScript used to steal credit card details and other information from payment forms on checkout pages of vulnerable e-commerce sites. Stolen customer payment card details were then sold on websites such as Trump’s Dumps and Sky-Fraud.
