United States Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control publicized on the 16th of September that it has imposed a penalty on two international cyber-attackers responsible for stealing cryptocurrencies worth millions of dollar.
Russian duo, Danil Potekhin, and Dmitrii Karasavidi built various parody websites of legal digital currency exchanges to acquire login details of unaware victims before using falsely verified accounts to transfer their digital currency. The transfer was achieved via several intermediaries, after which they launched numerous pump and dump campaigns for low volume altcoins. The suspects swindled clients from three exchanges and carted away with at least $16.8M.
