Year: 2019
Court filings and enforcement actions initiated or unsealed during calendar year 2019.
Key Facts
- 3 major cases opened or unsealed in 2019.
- Cumulative losses identified for 2019 matters exceed $374.1 million.
- Documented from federal indictments and official government disclosures.
Documented Matters for 2019
U.S. v. Yakubets & Turashev (Evil Corp / Dridex Banking Malware)
Leader and core administrator of Evil Corp charged with deploying Bugat/Dridex banking malware and ransomware, stealing dozens of millions of dollars from bank accounts of municipalities, school districts, and businesses.
U.S. v. Paige Thompson (Capital One Cloud Breach)
Former Seattle cloud engineer who identified misconfigured web application firewalls to gain unauthorized access to Capital One's Amazon Web Services storage buckets, exfiltrating 106 million customer credit card applications.
U.S. v. Artem Radchenko (SEC EDGAR Insider Trading Hack)
Ukrainian cybercriminals who hacked into the SEC EDGAR corporate filing test system, exfiltrating non-public quarterly earnings reports for hundreds of publicly traded companies before their official release to generate $4.1 million in illegal insider trades.