Collaborate Disseminate
The defendant earned roughly $80,000 from his crimes between 2017 and 2019, prosecutors said.
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U.S. law enforcement officials gathered details about a suspected cybercriminal by collecting intelligence from his apparent messages to vape shops in Ukraine. The accused scammer, Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev, was arraigned Tuesday during an 11-minute hearing in which he appeared virtually from the Pinellas County Jail near Tampa, Fla. Ivanov-Tolpintsev is accused of accessing victims’ username and password credentials between 2016 and 2020, then acting as a seller on a cybercriminal forum where he sold the sensitive data and leased access to a botnet, an army of hacked computers capable of sending spam or infecting more computers. Using the aliases “sergios” and “mars,” Ivanov-Tolpintsev allegedly claimed that his botnet was capable of accessing 2,000 usernames and passwords a day, enabling other perpetrators to carry out identity theft or other kinds of fraud. U.S. officials accused the defendant of earning more than $80,000 as part of the scheme over four years. The […]
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