Russian jailed for eight years in the US for writing code that sifted botnet logs for web banking creds for fraudsters A Russian programmer has been sentenced to eight years behind bars in America for his part in a massive cybercriminal network that hacked into and drained victims' bank accounts. Aleksandr Brovko, 36, was arrested in the Czech Republic in 2019 and extradited to America following a lengthy probe into Russian hacking rings. He …
Maze ransomware gang says it has quit the cybercrime business
1) they really are quitting, but that won't make much difference since there are plenty of others and new ones coming up all the time
2) the leader(s) decided to disband, but some of the members will simply join other gangs or start up their own so it won't make much difference
3) a rival gang put out that announcement as part of a turf dispute, or hoping some of Maze's members will join their gang, or as a troll, so it won't make any difference
> The official announcement of his sentence claimed Brovko was part of a “$100m botnet conspiracy,” though that figure is a little suspect: it was based on details of 200,000 devices and PCs stored on Brovko’s computer gear multiplied by $500, the minimum dollar value required by law for a charge of unauthorized device access.
A *little* suspect!!?? What!!??
Do these lawyers have no shame and no desire to even pretend they are involved in fair system of justice? Brovko was part of a $100 million conspiracy because that's the number we made up. We have to make up that figure to be able to charge him with the offences we want to charge him with. I thought Steven Avery / Wisconsin (a case of truly shocking corruption starting in Wisconsin but ultimately involving the entire US legal system) was an anomaly but perhaps America had entirely moved away from any interest in truth within its justice system.
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