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The Rise and Fall of the Bayrob Malware Gang (zdnet.com)
Three Romanians ran a complicated online fraud operation -- along with a massive malware botnet -- for nine years, reports ZDNet, netting tens of millions of US dollars, but their crime spree is now over. But now they're all facing long prison sentences.
"The three were arrested in late 2016 after the FBI and Symantec had silently stalked their malware servers for years, patiently waiting for the highly skilled group to make mistakes that would leave enough of a breadcrumb trail to follow back to their real identities."
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: The group started from simple eBay scams [involving non-existent cars and even a fake trucking company] to running one of the most widespread keylogger trojans around. They were considered one of the most advanced groups around, using PGP email and OTR encryption when most hackers were defacing sites under the Anonymous moniker, and using multiple proxy layers to protect their infrastructure. The group operated tens of fake websites, including a Yahoo subsidiary clone, conned and stole money from their own money mules, and were of the first groups to deploy Bitcoin crypto-mining malware on desktops, when Bitcoin could still be mined on PCs.
The Bayrob group was led by one of Romania's top IT students, who went to the dark side and helped create a malware operation that took nine years for US authorities and the FBI to track and eventually take down. Before turning hacker, he was the coach of Romania's national computer science team, although he was still a student, and won numerous awards in programming and CS contests.
"The three were arrested in late 2016 after the FBI and Symantec had silently stalked their malware servers for years, patiently waiting for the highly skilled group to make mistakes that would leave enough of a breadcrumb trail to follow back to their real identities."
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: The group started from simple eBay scams [involving non-existent cars and even a fake trucking company] to running one of the most widespread keylogger trojans around. They were considered one of the most advanced groups around, using PGP email and OTR encryption when most hackers were defacing sites under the Anonymous moniker, and using multiple proxy layers to protect their infrastructure. The group operated tens of fake websites, including a Yahoo subsidiary clone, conned and stole money from their own money mules, and were of the first groups to deploy Bitcoin crypto-mining malware on desktops, when Bitcoin could still be mined on PCs.
The Bayrob group was led by one of Romania's top IT students, who went to the dark side and helped create a malware operation that took nine years for US authorities and the FBI to track and eventually take down. Before turning hacker, he was the coach of Romania's national computer science team, although he was still a student, and won numerous awards in programming and CS contests.
I would have considered that standard procedure. At work, it is completely standard for anything confidential.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Loads of Romanians are not part of the ethnic group of gypsies or "Roma". And it's been racists like you who have contributed to a lot of the problems with the ones that are gypsies, or Roma. Members of those groups are doing quite well in a lot of countries. But they are thoroughly marginalized in Romania and other Eastern European countries where they are living below subsistence level and are forced to be criminals just to survive. As this has been going on for centuries, it's become a vicious cycle: they are discriminated against for being criminal when distrust and exile forced them into it in the first place. Or vice versa - who can tell after centuries?
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
Members of those groups are doing quite well in a lot of countries.
LOL! Please tell me 2/two countries where Gypsies integrated / "do quite well" by any standard. That means the majority of the population taking a job, going through the education system, etc.
But they are thoroughly marginalized in Romania and other Eastern European countries where they are living below subsistence level and are forced to be criminals just to survive
Nobody is forcing anyone in Eastern Europe to be criminal, that's a ridiculous claim. So many Gypsies in Eastern Europe live in poverty because those countries are, by European Union standards, quite poor themselves. A lot of people there live in poverty - some of them are Gypsies.
Catalin Braescu
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