<story><title>‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/inside-evil-corp-a-100m-cybercrime-menace/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>munk-a</author><text>Just to clarify - why the hell didn&amp;#x27;t the FBI task someone to do what Brian was doing?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; So, each day for several years my morning routine went as follows: Make a pot of coffee; shuffle over to the computer and view the messages Aqua and his co-conspirators had sent to their money mules over the previous 12-24 hours; look up the victim company names in Google; pick up the phone to warn each that they were in the process of being robbed by the Russian Cyber Mob.&lt;p&gt;Just assigning an agent to that seems like a dead simple way to really quickly curtail that operation.</text></comment>
<story><title>‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/inside-evil-corp-a-100m-cybercrime-menace/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway5752</author><text>The US Treasury dropped sanctions on three companies related to Evil Corp after Lavrov&amp;#x27;s recent visit: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;dcpoll&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1205544785446129664&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;dcpoll&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1205544785446129664&lt;/a&gt; (which references &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;jeffstone500&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1205539378019360768&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;jeffstone500&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1205539378019360768&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>