Black Hat Hackers for many years seriously disliked journalist Brian Krebs. The fact is that Krebs is one of the veterans of computer security journalism, famous for his investigations and revelations. Thanks to the information collected by him, it was possible to bring out many hacking groups to clean water. Moreover, Krebs often gave the information which he collected, to the hands of law enforcement agencies, he also publishes large-scale revelations in his blog, de-anonymization the criminals and explaining step by step how he managed to do it.
One example, only recently Krebs managed to expose the hack-group vDos (for which his website was immediately subjected to a long DDoS-attack, using IoT-devices, the capacity of 620 Gbit / s), as well as he built the structured theory of who ran recently closed aggregator for leaks LeakedSource.
Of course, hackers do not like Krebs activities and his publicity. Hackers were taking revenge journalist for many years. They sent a SWAT team to his home, took $ 20,000 credit on his behalf, transferred $ 1,000 to his PayPal account from stolen payment card's, and the PayPal account was compromised more than once, and hackers tried to transfer money from Krebs's account to terrorist, to banned organization in Russia DAESH. Also, Malware authors mention Brian Krebs in the code of their programs.
But hacker, known under the pseudonyms Fly, Flycracker and MUXACC1 (as well as Tomas Rimkis, Flyck, Centurion, Stranier and Darklife) zealously followed Krebs. He is also citizen of Ukraine Sergei Vovnenko. In 2013, Vovnenko thought of a new "setup". At the closed account forum thecc.bz, fundraising was announced to purchase 1 gram of heroin. The drug was planned to be sent to Brian Krebs by post, and hurt the journalist. The idea was to notify the local police station before delivery that Krebs is junkie and soon he should receive heroin by mail.
Then the "jokers" managed to collect 1.6532 BTC, buy for this money 12 bags of heroin (10 + 2 bonus) and really send them to Krebs. On Monday, July 29, 2013, the parcel was delivered to his address. Packets with drugs were hidden in the envelope with magazine Chicago Tribune glued to the back of the cover.
However, Fly and his accomplices did not know that Brian Krebs infiltrated thecc.bzfor a long time, and he secretly watched the collection of funds and the entire "operation" of the avengers. The journalist warned the local police station in advance that he was going to be sent drugs and gave the law enforcement agencies all the information. Once the parcel was delivered, Krebs called the police, who confiscated the parcel for the necessary research.
But Fly did not calm down. So, he published in the public domain Krebs's e-mail address, photos of his house and other confidential information, and then he sent the funeral wreath to the journalist, addressed to Krebs's wife and with an unambiguous threatening message.
After that, Brian Krebs becam interested in Fly personality. With the support of the Group-IB specialists, the journalist conducted thorough investigation and eventually calculated the 28-year-old Sergei Vovnenko, who resided with his wife and child in Naples, Italy. Krebs handed over to the authorities all information about Vovnenko, as a result, in 2014, Carder was arrested, and after about 15 months was extradited to the United States. By the way, from the prison Vovnenko even sent Krebs Christmas cards, congratulating him, and apparently he repented.
However, Vovnenko was not prosecute not so much for his attacks on Brian Krebs, but because of his carder activities. According to court documents, Fly had Zeus-botnet, which eventually infected more than 13 000 devices. The hacker and his accomplices stole confidential information from infected machines, including data on bank cards and payment system accounts. After that the stolen information was resold on underground carder forums.
February 17, 2017 Brian Krebs said that the court in the case of the Fly finally concluded. As a result, Vovnenko, who last year pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 41 months in prison and ordered him to pay $ 83,368 to cover the damage caused to them. Most of this time, carder has already spent waiting for the trial. So, very soon Vovnenko will be freed.
One example, only recently Krebs managed to expose the hack-group vDos (for which his website was immediately subjected to a long DDoS-attack, using IoT-devices, the capacity of 620 Gbit / s), as well as he built the structured theory of who ran recently closed aggregator for leaks LeakedSource.
Of course, hackers do not like Krebs activities and his publicity. Hackers were taking revenge journalist for many years. They sent a SWAT team to his home, took $ 20,000 credit on his behalf, transferred $ 1,000 to his PayPal account from stolen payment card's, and the PayPal account was compromised more than once, and hackers tried to transfer money from Krebs's account to terrorist, to banned organization in Russia DAESH. Also, Malware authors mention Brian Krebs in the code of their programs.
But hacker, known under the pseudonyms Fly, Flycracker and MUXACC1 (as well as Tomas Rimkis, Flyck, Centurion, Stranier and Darklife) zealously followed Krebs. He is also citizen of Ukraine Sergei Vovnenko. In 2013, Vovnenko thought of a new "setup". At the closed account forum thecc.bz, fundraising was announced to purchase 1 gram of heroin. The drug was planned to be sent to Brian Krebs by post, and hurt the journalist. The idea was to notify the local police station before delivery that Krebs is junkie and soon he should receive heroin by mail.
Then the "jokers" managed to collect 1.6532 BTC, buy for this money 12 bags of heroin (10 + 2 bonus) and really send them to Krebs. On Monday, July 29, 2013, the parcel was delivered to his address. Packets with drugs were hidden in the envelope with magazine Chicago Tribune glued to the back of the cover.
However, Fly and his accomplices did not know that Brian Krebs infiltrated thecc.bzfor a long time, and he secretly watched the collection of funds and the entire "operation" of the avengers. The journalist warned the local police station in advance that he was going to be sent drugs and gave the law enforcement agencies all the information. Once the parcel was delivered, Krebs called the police, who confiscated the parcel for the necessary research.
But Fly did not calm down. So, he published in the public domain Krebs's e-mail address, photos of his house and other confidential information, and then he sent the funeral wreath to the journalist, addressed to Krebs's wife and with an unambiguous threatening message.
After that, Brian Krebs becam interested in Fly personality. With the support of the Group-IB specialists, the journalist conducted thorough investigation and eventually calculated the 28-year-old Sergei Vovnenko, who resided with his wife and child in Naples, Italy. Krebs handed over to the authorities all information about Vovnenko, as a result, in 2014, Carder was arrested, and after about 15 months was extradited to the United States. By the way, from the prison Vovnenko even sent Krebs Christmas cards, congratulating him, and apparently he repented.
However, Vovnenko was not prosecute not so much for his attacks on Brian Krebs, but because of his carder activities. According to court documents, Fly had Zeus-botnet, which eventually infected more than 13 000 devices. The hacker and his accomplices stole confidential information from infected machines, including data on bank cards and payment system accounts. After that the stolen information was resold on underground carder forums.
February 17, 2017 Brian Krebs said that the court in the case of the Fly finally concluded. As a result, Vovnenko, who last year pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 41 months in prison and ordered him to pay $ 83,368 to cover the damage caused to them. Most of this time, carder has already spent waiting for the trial. So, very soon Vovnenko will be freed.