Twelve more suspects were accused in a Rico conspiracy for his alleged participation in the theft of more than $ 230 million in cryptocurrency and to rob the funds using Crypto exchanges and mixing services.
Two other suspects associated with this conspiracy, 20 -year -old Malon Lam (aka “Grievo,” “Anne Hathaway,” and “$ $ $”) and 21 -year -old Zendil Serano (aka “box,” vsaz, “and” @skidstar “) were arrested.
As Court documentLam, Serano, and others involved in the scheme allegedly gained unauthorized access to the cryptocurrency accounts of the victims and transferred money to the Crypto Wallet, which they controlled. In the August 18 attack, he stole more than 4,100 bitcoins from Washington, DC, victim (at the same time price more than $ 230 million).
Crypto fraud explorer zachxbt, who FBI investigators assistedIt was discovered that the group targeted a creditor from the Genesis Crypto Exchange, using the Spoof phone number and applied customer aid in Google and Gemini.
Presenting as a Gemini aid representative, he cheated the victim to share his screen through the Anneidesk (a remote desktop application) after resetting the two-work authentication (2FA) and compromising on the account, allowing them to reach private keys from the bitcoin core and allow them to fuck the target’s Cryptocurrency Fund.
Zachxbt said, “An initial tradition divided $ 243m between each party, before the funds were quickly peeled out 15+ exchanges, immediately swapped between bitcoins, litcoin, atherium and monero.”
In addition to cyber-capable raccizing conspiracy and money laundering, the following defendants, who were convicted this week, also have to face allegations of obstruction and conspiracy to justice for wire fraud:
- Marlon Ferro, 19 (Santa Ana, California)
- Hamza Dost, 21 (Havard, California)
- Connor Flansburg, 21 (Newport Beach, California)
- Kunal Mehta, 45 (Irwin, California)
- Ethan Yarli, 18 (Richmond Hill, New York)
- Kodi Damertus, 19 (Stuart, Florida)
- Akash Anand, 22 (New Zealand)
- Ivan Tangman, 21 (Newport Beach, California)
- Joel Cortes, 21 (Laguna Nigel, California)
- First name unknown -1, last name unknown -1 aka “chain” and “squigy” (location unknown)
- First name unknown -2, last name unknown -2 aka “danny” and “mech” (location unknown)
- John Tucker Desmond, 19 (Huntington Beach, California)
While most stolen cryptocurrency assets were converted into monos for an oblivion added, the attackers reportedly made some important errors, which add money looted from the zodiac signs of original theft.
They Allegedly The crypto mixers and exchanges, pass-through wallets, looted the stolen cryptocurrency stolen to hide their identity and locations using “peel chains,” and virtual private network (VPN).
The stolen cryptocurrency was later used to finance the grand lifestyle, the defendants allegedly spent luxury cars, high -end clocks, designer handbags, night club walks and stolen funds on international travel.
“Enterprise members and colleagues have valued up to $ 500,000 per evening, with other things to buy the use of the stolen virtual currency, with other things, at $ 500,000 per evening, the tenclub parties are valuable in ten thousand dollars, which are valuable between $ 100,000 and $ 500,000.” SaidAlso “luxury clothes, thousands of dollars in los angeles, in rented homes, hampton, and miami, private jet rent, a team of private security guards, and a fleet of at least 28 foreign cars from $ 100,000 to $ 3.8 million.”
“Enterprises members organized various responsibilities. Various roles included database hackers, organizers, target identifiers, collar, money launders and residential buglers targeting hardware hardware hardware virtual currency wallets.”
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