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	"title": "Suspected Zeus cybercrime ring leader \u0026lsquo;Tank\u0026rsquo; arrested by Swiss police",
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	"plain_text": "Suspected Zeus cybercrime ring leader \u0026lsquo;Tank\u0026rsquo; arrested by\r\nSwiss police\r\nBy Sergiu Gatlan\r\nPublished: 2022-11-16 · Archived: 2026-04-05 13:18:31 UTC\r\nVyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, also known as Tank and one of the leaders of the notorious JabberZeus cybercrime gang,\r\nwas arrested in Geneva last month.\r\nThe Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said Penchukov was arrested last month and is waiting to be extradited to the\r\nUnited States, although he can still appeal FOJ's decision.\r\n\"By order of the Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) and based on an extradition request from the USA, a Ukrainian national was\r\narrested in the Canton of Geneva on 23 October 2022 and detained pending extradition,\" Swiss prosecutors told\r\nBleepingComputer.\r\nhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/suspected-zeus-cybercrime-ring-leader-tank-arrested-by-swiss-police/\r\nPage 1 of 4\n\n0:00\r\nhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/suspected-zeus-cybercrime-ring-leader-tank-arrested-by-swiss-police/\r\nPage 2 of 4\n\nVisit Advertiser websiteGO TO PAGE\r\n\"The US authorities accuse the prosecuted person of extortion, bank fraud, and identity theft, among other things. During the\r\nhearing on 24 October 2022, the person did not consent to his extradition to the USA via a simplified proceeding.\r\n\"After completion of the formal extradition procedure, the FOJ has decided to grant his extradition to the USA on 15\r\nNovember 2022. The decision of the FOJ may be appealed at the Swiss Criminal Federal Court, respectively at the Swiss\r\nSupreme Court.\"\r\nCybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs first reported that Penchukov was arrested while traveling to Geneva to meet with his\r\nwife.\r\nJABBERZEUS wanted poster (FBI)\r\nFrom stealing bank accounts to ransomware\r\nThe U.S. Department of Justice first charged Penchukov in 2012, accusing him of being involved in a conspiracy to steal\r\nmillions of dollars using bank account numbers, passwords, personal identification numbers, and other sensitive info stolen\r\nusing the notorious Zeus malware.\r\nMultiple sources previously told BleepingComputer that Penchukov was also one of the managers of the Maze and Egregor\r\nransomware operations.\r\nMaze ransomware popularized double-extortion attacks, where the threat actors also stole data and used it as further\r\nleverage to pressure victims into paying a ransom. Maze later rebranded to the Egregor and Sekhmet operations to evade law\r\nenforcement. \r\nBleepingComputer was also told that he was among the suspects arrested in January 2021 by Ukrainian police following an\r\ninternational law enforcement operation targeting Egregor ransomware gang members.\r\nHowever, according to Krebs' report, he was able to evade prosecution with the help of his political connections, including\r\nthe late son of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.\r\nAs one of JabberZeus cybercrime ring's leaders, Penchukov managed the stolen banking credentials and the money mules\r\nwho wired money from the victims' accounts into those controlled by the cybercriminals.\r\nTogether with eight other suspects, he was charged with conspiring to participate in \"racketeering activity, conspiracy to\r\ncommit computer fraud and identity theft, aggravated identity theft, and multiple counts of bank fraud.\"\r\nhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/suspected-zeus-cybercrime-ring-leader-tank-arrested-by-swiss-police/\r\nPage 3 of 4\n\nTwo of his co-conspirators, Ukrainian nationals Yevhen Kulibaba and Yuriy Konovalenko, pleaded guilty in November 2014\r\nafter being extradited from the UK and were sentenced to two years and ten months of incarceration in May 2015.\r\nAutomated Pentesting Covers Only 1 of 6 Surfaces.\r\nAutomated pentesting proves the path exists. BAS proves whether your controls stop it. Most teams run one without the\r\nother.\r\nThis whitepaper maps six validation surfaces, shows where coverage ends, and provides practitioners with three diagnostic\r\nquestions for any tool evaluation.\r\nSource: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/suspected-zeus-cybercrime-ring-leader-tank-arrested-by-swiss-police/\r\nhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/suspected-zeus-cybercrime-ring-leader-tank-arrested-by-swiss-police/\r\nPage 4 of 4",
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