{"id":51964,"date":"2021-10-29T10:16:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T07:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=51964"},"modified":"2025-09-03T02:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:33:57","slug":"us-charges-six-russians-and-one-ukrainian-over-trickbot-botnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/us-charges-six-russians-and-one-ukrainian-over-trickbot-botnet\/","title":{"rendered":"US charges six Russians and one Ukrainian over Trickbot botnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six Russians and one Ukrainian have been charged in the case of the hacking group that controlled Trickbot malware and has infected more than a million computers since 2016. The matter is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/press-release\/file\/1445241\/download\">described<\/a> in the document from the Northern District of Ohio court.<\/p>\n<p>Among the defendants are Russian citizen Vladimir Dunaev, extradited on October 20 to the United States from South Korea, and Russian national Alla Vitte, who the DOJ also identifies as a Latvian citizen. The names of the other defendants in the document are redacted.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ identifies Dunaev and Vitte as <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/55-year-old-rostov-on-don-woman-identified-as-trickbot-botnet-operator\">the developers of malware<\/a> used for Trickbot.<\/p>\n<p>Trickbot has long been one of the most popular trojans used by criminals to infiltrate systems and to steal data, conduct covert mining and deploy ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the Trickbot group operated in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Suriname. The operators of the botnet are also suspected of disrupting the electoral process in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, an international group of specialists carried out <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cybersecurity-specialists-launch-hunt-for-trickbot-botnet-which-could-threaten-us-elections\">an operation to neutralize Trickbot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Russians and one Ukrainian have been charged in the case of the hacking group that controlled Trickbot malware and has infected more than a million computers since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Six Russians and one Ukrainian were charged in the Trickbot case.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1573,1162,1154,1630,26],"class_list":["post-51964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-botnet","tag-court-cases","tag-crimes","tag-trickbot","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Six Russians and one Ukrainian were charged in the Trickbot case.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51966,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51964\/revisions\/51966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}