FBI charges 7 cyber criminals for $14M clickjacking scheme!

[networkguy]

On Wednesday the US Department of Justice announced indictments against six Estonians and one Russian for operating an online clickjacking scheme that netted them $14 million in fraudulent revenue.

The criminal operation known as "Rove criminal enterprise" infected millions of computers worldwide with malware that redirected Internet searches to fake sites. one Russian was still at large. The suspects allegedly infected four million computers in 100 countries from 2007 to 2011. Among them: 500,000 in the United States including some at NASA.

(rove digital, an estonian corporation -- rovedigital.com
rove criminal enterprise
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six Estonians:______their personal/business web presence:
Vladimir Tsastsin,____(estdomains.com) :bingo:

Timur Gerassimenko,___(infradata.ee)

Dmitri Jegorov,_______(dimuskin.com)

Valeri Aleksejev,_____(surfinsky.com)

Konstantin Poltev,____(kokach.com/

Anton Ivanov,__________??
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Russian (still at large)
Andrey Taame,__________??

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news article:
http://news.yahoo.com/feds-charge-7-internet-ad-fraud-case-165522124.html


FBI press release:
http://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2011/manhattan-u.s.-attorney-charges-seven-individuals-for-engineering-sophisticated-internet-fraud-scheme...



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[Veronika11]

unbelievable..the things that are possible through the internet

 

[HostMantis]

It amazes me that it went on for as long as it did.

 

[Dave_Z]

It amazes me that it went on for as long as it did.

Mostly likely to document properly and be better able to demonstrate their case, eventually leading to all that. You can imagine why law enforcement desires something faster.

 

[alien51]

They could have stopped at 4 or even just 2 million dollars, and fled.

But, no! They jacked it up to 14 million and kept on going.

 

[DanP]

They could have stopped at 4 or even just 2 million dollars, and fled.

But, no! They jacked it up to 14 million and kept on going.

Exactly, don't think they are as smart as they think, if you do something like that it will come back to you eventually.