back to article FBI secures guilty plea from Russian bot-herder

A Russian citizen behind “tens of thousands” of Ebury trojan infections has entered a guilty plea in the US and will face sentencing in August. The US Department of Justice indicted Maxim Senakh, now 41, in January 2015. Ebury was a trojan carrying an SSH rootkit and putting backdoors into its targets, which were Linux, …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Don't you just love Russian cybercrime?

    The Russian state is a criminal state run by a criminal gangster which overlooks cybercrime such as money laundering, phishing and other fraud carried out against Western states, indeed it seems to be regarded as a valuable source of western currency, which makes it necessary to nab Russian citizens involved in criminal activity if and when they leave the tacit protection of mother Russia. (Russian citizens are never extradited from Russia and there is no law enforcement cooperation with countries outside of Russia). It is a sad state of affairs that the Donald doesn't seem to comprehend in his cosying up to Putin, but then again perhaps he does..

    I've had to point out recently to a couple of webtrading companies that have had their websites compromised by Russian criminal SQL injection attacks and their databases stolen leading to their customers receiving spear phishing scam spams distributed by a Russian controlled botnet that it is of no practical use reporting it to the UK police, (still do it, of course) but that their main responsibilities are to secure their website to protect their customers and to warn their customers what has happened and that the emails that they are receiving in their name offering a free hamper are a scam...

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Don't you just love Russian cybercrime?

      mmm...

      So you're proposing the Russians learn their ethics from the West?

      Bending the rules whenever it suits the West, ignoring international laws, might is right, etc etc.

      You really haven't been paying attention have you.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Once machines were infected

    "Ebury was a trojan carrying an SSH rootkit and putting backdoors into its targets, which were Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems. Once machines were infected, it used crafted DNS packets to exfiltrate user credentials."

    Ebury only runs on aready compromised machines, usually compromised by hacking unprotected cPanel control panels.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Ignorance is bliss

    I am still gob smacked when, people who for a living handle large amount of money and yet they are cannot accept that what they are doing will eventually attract criminal interests. This is often coupled to the other strange belief that the software and hardware they choose to use is: stable, safe and secure !!!

    The Internet is a subset of a DoD communication system which some still believe that the Russian and others should just leave IT alone - while our Secret Services hack their systems with impunity ???

    I post annonymus today just 'cos everyone else posting today is annonymus - which says to me they are possibly afraid to reveal their true identity for some reason.

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