American intelligence agencies believe that he used to cyber-attacks botnet (network devices) of the ten of thousands of infected computers.
In Los Angeles, February 1, was arrested a native of the Russian Federation Alexander Tverdokhlebov, a suspect in the theft of money from Bank accounts through cyber attacks.
Tverdokhlebova suspected of complicity in the embezzlement of funds from American banks in 2009-2010. American intelligence agencies believe that he used to cyber-attacks botnet (network devices) of the ten of thousands of infected computers.
During the searches in the cells of the Bank tverdokhlebova, which were located in different States, were found in a total of 272 thousand dollars.
According to the newspaper, the security services came to tverdokhlebova through the study of correspondence in the ICQ hacker Vadim Polyakov, who was convicted in 2016 the fraud — he led a hacking group that hacked the accounts of users of the site StubHub.com that sells tickets for sporting and entertainment events.
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