Risky Bulletin Newsletter
October 26, 2022
Risky Biz News: Raccoon Stealer dev didn't die in Ukrainian war; he was arrested in the Netherlands
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But—surprise, surprise—it turns out that the developer didn't die in the war, and he stopped responding to his co-workers because he was arrested in the Netherlands at the request of the FBI.
All of this came to light yesterday when the US Department of Justice unsealed charges against Mark Sokolovsky, 26, a Ukrainian national, for his role in maintaining the Raccoon Infostealer (also known as Raccoon Stealer) malware-as-a-service (MaaS).
The DOJ said that together with Dutch and Italian authorities, the FBI also seized servers operated by the Raccoon gang, effectively taking offline that older version of the Raccoon operation.