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Where did you read they pretended to be from Latvia? They worked in multiple countries, including Latvia.
by wernercd 11y ago
Where did you read they pretended to be from Latvia? They worked in multiple countries, including Latvia.
- stephengillie 11y agoIn lieu of details, I assumed this from the article details. Are you saying that they also pretended to be Macedonians?
- nyolfen 11y agothey probably had a partner agency bust someone in one or more of those countries and flipped them
- stephengillie 11y agoSo you're saying that they couldn't even get in on their own? They had to find someone with what I'll call a "legitimate reason" for connecting to the darkforum, and had to sneak in that way?
- celticninja 11y agoYes it would seem that way. Check out the top comment, it has a quite where it looks like they turned someone in January and someone else in June. So the first was the person who got them onto the board, probably just a user\low level carder, the second was likely an admin with more privileges, perhaps even access to PMs. Once they had the admin they were able to close it all down.
- stephengillie 11y agoWhere are you seeing that? The top comment is the dumb one about hornets.
- celticninja 11y agoCtrl+f junto The really interesting part is the last paragraph: In a related case, Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, aka Gribodemon, 26, of Tver, Russia; and Hamza Bendelladj, aka Bx1, 27, of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, pleaded guilty on Jan. 28, 2014, and June 26, 2015, respectively, in the Northern District of Georgia in connection with developing, distributing and controlling SpyEye, a malicious banking trojan designed to steal unsuspecting victims' financial and personally identifiable information. Bendelladj and Panin advertised SpyEye to other members on Darkode. Note that they were arrested in Georgia. Do they mean the country of Georgia, enemy of the Russians and friend of the US? Or do they mean the state of Georgia in the US? Either way, the US has them in custody, which suggests an arrest on US soil (come visit the US trap style) or a foreign arrest and extradition. I'm guessing by the tone of that last paragraph that this is how the FBI got in. They flipped them and offered them a pkea bargain. We'll find out at sentencing.