The court sentenced members of the Fraud Organization hack group associated with the once famous UniCC card forum to suspended sentences for illegally trading bank card data with damage totaling more than 1 billion rubles.
Let me remind you that the participants of The Fraud Organization were detained by Russian law enforcement agencies in early 2022. Then law enforcement officers arrested the alleged founder of the group, Andrei Novak, for two months on charges of computer crimes and money laundering (in the United States, he is wanted on charges of cyber fraud). Three other suspects were placed under house arrest.
As the media reported at the time, Novak was known on underground forums under such nicknames as Faxtrod, Faaxxx and Unicc, and was the administrator of the UniCC card reader forum. In mid-January 2022, this resource unexpectedly announced its closure, and then its managers wrote that there was no need to build conspiracy theories about their departure, since this is a balanced decision, they have not been young for a long time, and "their health does not allow them to live/work in this mode anymore."
Shortly after the closure of UniCC, law enforcement officers reported that in addition to Novak, three members of the group were arrested — Kirill Samokutyaev, Konstantin Vladimirovich Bergman and Mark Avramovich Bergman.
Earlier this month, we wrote that in court, all participants of the Fraud Organization pleaded guilty to illegal trade in bank card data with damage totaling more than 1 billion rubles.
According to the indictment, the Bergman brothers created an "online trading platform" no later than 2012. unicvv.ru", where any registered user, having replenished the balance of their account, could purchase stolen bank card data and foreign social security numbers. Soon they were joined by Novak and Samokutyaev, as well as unidentified persons. It was possible to expose the activities of the members of the hacker association thanks to the joint work of the K department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the FSB.
As TASS now reports, the defendants faced up to seven years in prison, but the guilty plea was taken into account as a mitigating circumstance. As a result, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow gave former UniCC administrators suspended sentences.
Let me remind you that the participants of The Fraud Organization were detained by Russian law enforcement agencies in early 2022. Then law enforcement officers arrested the alleged founder of the group, Andrei Novak, for two months on charges of computer crimes and money laundering (in the United States, he is wanted on charges of cyber fraud). Three other suspects were placed under house arrest.
As the media reported at the time, Novak was known on underground forums under such nicknames as Faxtrod, Faaxxx and Unicc, and was the administrator of the UniCC card reader forum. In mid-January 2022, this resource unexpectedly announced its closure, and then its managers wrote that there was no need to build conspiracy theories about their departure, since this is a balanced decision, they have not been young for a long time, and "their health does not allow them to live/work in this mode anymore."
Shortly after the closure of UniCC, law enforcement officers reported that in addition to Novak, three members of the group were arrested — Kirill Samokutyaev, Konstantin Vladimirovich Bergman and Mark Avramovich Bergman.
Earlier this month, we wrote that in court, all participants of the Fraud Organization pleaded guilty to illegal trade in bank card data with damage totaling more than 1 billion rubles.
According to the indictment, the Bergman brothers created an "online trading platform" no later than 2012. unicvv.ru", where any registered user, having replenished the balance of their account, could purchase stolen bank card data and foreign social security numbers. Soon they were joined by Novak and Samokutyaev, as well as unidentified persons. It was possible to expose the activities of the members of the hacker association thanks to the joint work of the K department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the FSB.
As TASS now reports, the defendants faced up to seven years in prison, but the guilty plea was taken into account as a mitigating circumstance. As a result, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow gave former UniCC administrators suspended sentences.
