2024-09-10
37 分钟Investigators have been chasing the Russian-speaking cyber gang for years — and they’ve stayed just one step ahead. Threat researcher Zach Edwards lays out why bringing gangs like this to justice has always been so hard.
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Zach Edwards spends much of his day and many of his nights actually scouring digital crime scenes, looking for patterns and clues that link cyber crooks to their misdeeds.
You start investigating all these potential crime scenes, and you start going, these look similar.
There's commonalities here.
I think we're looking at the same threat actor operating all of this stuff.
Zach is a senior threat researcher at Silent Push, a cybersecurity company.
And while cybercriminals often come and go, there's one group that he's been tracking for more than a decade now that seems to have incredible staying power.
For many years, they were the biggest monsters on the block.
They call themselves fin seven.
They're an opportunistic, russian speaking criminal syndicate with dozens and dozens of hackers on staff, maybe more than 70 full time employees.
They have bosses and specialists and strategic planners, but they've also shown a willingness to align themselves with other groups if the payday is big enough.
They definitely operate like a traditional business.
They probably use project management software.
They probably have teams and managers.
They're big players hiding in plain sight.
These are criminals that have been alleged to make upwards of a billion dollars across all the crimes in the last decade.
And they have a large portion of the crew, potentially in eastern Europe.
And recently, they seem to be everywhere.
There's been a growing crescendo of people saying, hey, I'm seeing Finn seven.
And youd think, after ten years of watching fin seven steal credit card numbers, launch phishing attacks, and hold networks for ransom, that Zack would wonder if hed ever find a way to anticipate their next move or catch them in the act.