According to the DoJ, A Botnet operator had thousands of hacked credentials with the listing. A Ukrainian hacker has been sentenced to four years in prison for selling stolen credentials online.
On Thursday (May 12), the US Department of Justice (DoJ) sentenced Glib Oleksander Ivanov-Tolpintsev of Chernivtsi, Ukraine, to federal prison for operating a botnet designed for brute-force attack servers.
Botnets are slave networks created with compromised computers and other devices. Operators can direct these networks to slam online services with traffic called so-called Daniel-Off-Service (DDoS) attacks.
Furthermore, botnets may be instructed to try to crack the credentials by applying trial-and-error username and password combinations automatically. According to the DoJ filing, Ivanov-Tolpintsev’s botnet was used to “simultaneously decrypt multiple computer login credentials”. At the maximum level, about 2,000 machines per week were targeted and compromised.
From 2017 to 2019, the cyber-attacker operated a store on the dark web and sold thousands of hacked clues. Businesses in Florida have at least 100 servers listed by 28-year-olds. The scheme was profitable – at least until he was caught – and prosecutors estimated that the Dark Web Store had become at least $ 82,648.