Brute force of certificates has become a five-year term.
The Investigative Committee of Russia announced the verdict in the case of the attack on the Detsky Mir information system , which resulted in the theft of over seven thousand electronic gift certificates. As Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin told Interfax, Emil Galeev received a five-year prison sentence and a 500,000 ruble fine.
According to Bastrykin, the criminal case was investigated by the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee. Investigators believe that in 2022, Galeev and two accomplices rented six virtual servers, installed anonymization tools on them, developed malware, and used them to attack the company's infrastructure over the course of 12 days. The attackers allegedly breached information security measures, brute-forced passwords to 7,000 certificates, and copied them to their own database on one of the servers.
The head of the Investigative Committee noted that a "deep technical analysis" of a digital data array, including over 5,000 IP addresses, as well as the code and algorithms of the malware used, helped identify the group's actions. Using this data, investigators reconstructed the second-by-second sequence of actions, network identifiers, and the equipment used.
Two alleged accomplices went into hiding, were placed on the international wanted list, and were arrested in absentia.
According to Bastrykin, over the past three years, the Investigative Committee has investigated 36,600 IT crime cases. Of these, 9,500 involved theft, 6,100 involved economic crimes, 4,300 involved drug trafficking, 2,600 involved sexual assault, and over 2,000 involved fraud. He specifically noted the rise in drug-related crimes and online fraud, adding that the agency is focusing on developing digital trace recording methods and implementing new technical tools.
The Investigative Committee of Russia announced the verdict in the case of the attack on the Detsky Mir information system , which resulted in the theft of over seven thousand electronic gift certificates. As Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin told Interfax, Emil Galeev received a five-year prison sentence and a 500,000 ruble fine.
According to Bastrykin, the criminal case was investigated by the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee. Investigators believe that in 2022, Galeev and two accomplices rented six virtual servers, installed anonymization tools on them, developed malware, and used them to attack the company's infrastructure over the course of 12 days. The attackers allegedly breached information security measures, brute-forced passwords to 7,000 certificates, and copied them to their own database on one of the servers.
The head of the Investigative Committee noted that a "deep technical analysis" of a digital data array, including over 5,000 IP addresses, as well as the code and algorithms of the malware used, helped identify the group's actions. Using this data, investigators reconstructed the second-by-second sequence of actions, network identifiers, and the equipment used.
Two alleged accomplices went into hiding, were placed on the international wanted list, and were arrested in absentia.
According to Bastrykin, over the past three years, the Investigative Committee has investigated 36,600 IT crime cases. Of these, 9,500 involved theft, 6,100 involved economic crimes, 4,300 involved drug trafficking, 2,600 involved sexual assault, and over 2,000 involved fraud. He specifically noted the rise in drug-related crimes and online fraud, adding that the agency is focusing on developing digital trace recording methods and implementing new technical tools.
