{"id":57892,"date":"2022-02-16T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=57892"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:01:21","slug":"alleged-infraud-hackers-plead-guilty-and-strike-a-deal-with-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/alleged-infraud-hackers-plead-guilty-and-strike-a-deal-with-prosecutors\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Infraud hackers plead guilty and strike a deal with prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All four detained alleged members of the hacking group The Infraud Organization (Infraud) have pleaded guilty and are actively cooperating with investigators. This is stated in court materials, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20220216\/khakery-1773097468.html\">\u00ab\u0420\u0418\u0410 \u041d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438\u00bb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect in organizing the group, Andrei Novak, has also fully pleaded guilty to cybercrimes. In addition to Infraud, he was linked to UniCC, the largest dark-net platform for selling stolen credit card data, Interfax reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to his lawyer, Novak himself went to the police, disclosed the crimes, and aided the investigation. He also provided law enforcement with passwords, documents, and access to cryptocurrency assets.<\/p>\n<p>The defence argues that Novak has not worked with UniCC since 2015:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cHe has not been involved in UniCC&#8217;s activities for more than seven years, which are precisely what this case is investigating.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Novak&#8217;s defence asked the Moscow City Court to overturn the decision to remand him in custody, substituting house arrest. However the court did not release him from pre-trial detention.<\/p>\n<p>The other three defendants \u2014 Kirill Samokutyaev, Konstantin, and Mark Bergman \u2014 also entered cooperation agreements with the investigation and testified against the \u201cother participants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are detained until March 18.<\/p>\n<p>In January the FSB announced the dismantling of the hacker group REvil, with UniCC <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elimination-of-revil-in-russia-attack-on-ukrainian-ministry-websites-and-other-cybersecurity-developments\">announcing the end of its activities<\/a> almost simultaneously. According to experts, since 2013 the platform&#8217;s operators have received payments totaling $358 million in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Russian law enforcement <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hackers-arrested-in-russia-apple-zero-days-and-other-cybersecurity-news\">arrested<\/a> the alleged Infraud participants.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All four detained alleged members of the hacking group The Infraud Organization (Infraud) have pleaded guilty and are actively cooperating with investigators. This is stated in court materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,27],"class_list":["post-57892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57894,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57892\/revisions\/57894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}