Category Archives: Augustin Inzirillo

Nuclear Bot Author Arrested in Sextortion Case

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Last summer, a wave of sextortion emails began flooding inboxes around the world. The spammers behind this scheme claimed they’d hacked your computer and recorded videos of you watching porn, and promised to release the embarrassing footage to all your contacts unless a bitcoin demand was paid. Now, French authorities say they’ve charged two men they believe are responsible for masterminding this scam. One of them is a 21-year-old hacker interviewed by KrebsOnSecurity in 2017 who openly admitted to authoring a banking trojan called “Nuclear Bot.” Continue reading Nuclear Bot Author Arrested in Sextortion Case→

Self-Proclaimed ‘Nuclear Bot’ Author Weighs U.S. Job Offer

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The author of a banking Trojan called Nuclear Bot — a teenager living in France — recently released the source code for his creation just months after the malware began showing up for sale in cybercrime forums. Now the young man’s father is trying to convince him not to act on a job offer in the United States, fearing it may be a trap set by law enforcement agents. Continue reading Self-Proclaimed ‘Nuclear Bot’ Author Weighs U.S. Job Offer→

Self-Proclaimed ‘Nuclear Bot’ Author Weighs U.S. Job Offer

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The author of a banking Trojan called Nuclear Bot — a teenager living in France — recently released the source code for his creation just months after the malware began showing up for sale in cybercrime forums. Now the young man’s father is trying to convince him not to act on a job offer in the United States, fearing it may be a trap set by law enforcement agents. Continue reading Self-Proclaimed ‘Nuclear Bot’ Author Weighs U.S. Job Offer→