Notorious Cybercriminal Released From Prison

By Ionut Arghire on August 28, 2018
 
Earlier this month, Belarusian authorities released from prison Sergey Yarets, a notorious cybercriminal and co-developer of the Andromeda botnet.
 
Yarets, who used the online moniker of Ar3s, was arrested in late November 2017, when Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and law enforcement agencies in Europe dismantled the Andromeda botnet.
 
Also known as Gamarue or Wauchos, Andromeda has been around since 2011, its primary purpose being that of credential theft and malware distribution. Detected on over 1 million machines each month during the second half of 2017, the botnet had been associated with 80 malware families.
 
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