Research: Prolific cybercriminal tessa88 is Russian national
The identity of a notorious figure in the hacker underworld has possibly come to light, due to new research from threat intelligence firm Recorded Future. In a blog post published Tuesday, the company’s Insikt Group points to evidence that unmasks “tessa88,” a prolific data broker who sold access to information stolen in high-profile breaches. The company claims that tessa88 is tied to Russian national Maksim Donakov. Operating from February to May 2016, mostly on the dark web, tessa88 sold access to stolen databases, including LinkedIn, VKontakte, Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, according to the research. Andrei Barysevich, Recorded Future’s director of advanced collection, told CyberScoop that while tessa88 was a was a constant on many dark web forums, the holder of that alias was purely a broker and there is no reason to believe that person carried out the hacks. “He was the seller of the data,” Barysevich told CyberScoop. “We did not find any evidence that […]
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