Attacks involving Dridex continued until as recently as March 2019, the Do, J stated in a statement announcing the indictment. "For over Zues Bounty , Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev led among the most advanced transnational cybercrime distributes on the planet," stated United States Attorney Scott Brad of Western District of Pennsylvania.
Yakubets is alleged to have managed the advancement, circulation, and maintenance of Dridex and likewise supervise the real financial theft and using money mules to receive wire transfers and ACH payments. Turashev acted as the systems administrator and supervised of Dridex botnet operations. NPR on Thursday quoted senior Treasury Department authorities describing Yakubets as also working independently for Russia's domestic intelligence agency the Federal Security Service (FSB).
The $5 million reward for his arrest or conviction is the largest ever the United States federal government has actually provided in connection with a cybercrime. According to charging documents unsealed today in connection with both indictments, Yakubets, Turashev, and others involved in the Dridex campaign infected systems by fooling victims into opening harmful attachments or clicking on rogue links in phishing e-mails.
The stolen qualifications were then utilized to initiate deceptive wire transfers to abroad accounts and to a comprehensive network of cash mules in the United States. As one example, the indictment points to an attack in September 2012, where Yakubets and Turashev managed to illicitly move some $2. 2 million from an online account at Commonwealth Bank belonging to Penneco Oil to an account in Krasnodar, Russia.