In the US, arrested three hackers from Ukraine
Three Ukrainian citizens - 44-year-old Dmitry Fedorov, 33-year-old Fyodor Gladyr and 30-year-old Andrey Kopakov - were detained in the United States on charges of cyber attacks against more than 100 companies.
In the documents of the US Department of Justice they are called members of the “experienced international cybercriminal group,” writes RBC.
According to the investigation, the Ukrainians were in the hacker group FIN7, which had attacked companies in the US at least since 2015. Hacking "thousands of computer systems," they stole numbers of millions of bank cards. They also hacked in the UK, Australia and France.
Gladyrya and Fedorov were arrested in Germany and Poland in January 2018, at the request of the United States. The first has already been extradited to the United States, the second is expected to be extradited Kopakova was detained in Spain in June; he, too, has not yet been extradited to the United States.
Hackers from FIN7 worked under the cover of Combi Security with offices in Russia and Israel, and through it new people were recruited into the group.
On the Russian job search site SuperJob among employers was a company called Combi Security.
“Combi Security is one of the leading international companies in the field of information security. Its headquarters are located in Moscow and Haifa, ”the company’s description says.
The site CombiSecurity.com specified in the company's profile as of August 1 is not available, the domain is put up for sale.
Among the victims of hackers FIN7 was the corporation Trump Hotels. Hackers had their own hacking software, which they performed very professionally. Hackers stole bank card data more than 5 million people.
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