The U.S. Division of Justice, or DoJ, prosecuted Andrey Turchin, known under “fxmsp” with federal crimes. Turchin supposedly established a cyber crime group that focused the PC systems of a few companies . In the wake of taking each companies information, Turchin’s gathering supposedly sold the information on the dark web.
Turchin, a multi year old Kazakhstan national, is tenderly referred to on the dim web as “the undetectable god of networks.” He allegedly sold access to a large number of systems breached with his malware attacks, hoarding a million dollar crypto fortune through the span of three years.
The Western District of Washington is presently leading criminal arraignment procedures against Turchin, who is blamed for attacking companies situated in more than 40 nations.
No arrests yet
The Kazakhstan and British specialists likewise helped the U.S. to unlock the arraignment against “fxmsp.” U.S. Lawyer, Brian T. Moran, stated:
“Cyber crime knows no international borders, and stopping these crimes requires cooperation between an array of international partners. I commend Kazakhstan for its assistance in this investigation. I am hopeful these critical international partnerships between cybercrime investigators will lead to holding Andrey Turchin accountable in a court of law.”
In spite of the fact that the DoJ’s declaration didn’t indicate that the Kazakhstan police had just arrested Turchin, an unknown number of supposed co-conspirators were likewise recognized by the FBI. The arraignment doesn’t specify their personalities.
Fxmsp’s cyber criminal structure
U.S. law implementation the cyber criminal tasks supposedly drove by “fxmsp” and how they figured out how to process the exchanges:
“Prices typically ranged from a couple thousand dollars to, in some cases, over a hundred thousand dollars, depending on the victim and the degree of system access and controls. Many transactions occurred through use of a broker and escrow, which allowed interested buyers to sample the network access for a limited period to test the quality and reliability of the illicit access.”
