Russian Hacker jailed over botnet data scraping scheme that drained victim bank accounts.
A Russian cybercrime has been sentenced to eight years for participating in a botnet scheme that caused at least $100 Million in financial damage. Aleksandr Brovko was an active member of several elite, online forums designed to gather and exchange criminal tools and services. Brovko wrote a script that enabled botnets to parse log data. Which was used to uncover personally identifiable information(PII) and account credentials. Brovko processed and trafficked over 200,000 unauthorized access devices during the course of the conspiracy. These devices consist of PII and Financial Account Details. Resulting in over $100 Million in intended losses
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