Microsoft Engineer Charged In Reveton Ransomware Case (bleepingcomputer.com) 24
An anonymous reader writes: A Microsoft network engineer is facing federal charges in Florida for allegedly helping launder money obtained from victims of the Reventon ransomware. Florida investigators say that between October 2012 and March 2013, Uadiale worked with a UK citizen going online by the moniker K!NG. The latter would distribute and infect victims with the Reveton ransomware, while Uadiale would collect payments and send the money to K!NG, in the UK. Investigators tracked down Uadiale because this happened before Bitcoin became popular with ransomware authors and they used the now-defunct Liberty Reserve digital currency to move funds. Authorities from 18 countries seized and shut down Liberty Reserve servers in May 2013.
Really (Score:1)
Re: Really (Score:4, Informative)
I don't like Windows either, but I hardly consider it ransomware. Just install Ubuntu which is free.
I'm not permitted to use Linux at work, so it certainly feels like I'm being held hostage.
Why ?? why ?? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: Why ?? why ?? (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Look on the bright side, he was Nigerian and M$ hired him, not to be racist but it is as funny as fuck (apparently this case pre-dates his employment at M$, who will likely have to carefully check everything this guy ever touched ie inside access at M$ probably more profitable than the prior scam, a real problem for M$).
Side note, the shut down Liberty Reserve servers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] contained $6 BILLION in claimed money laundering operations and they are still working through it. I am won
I guess it really was Microsoft calling this time! (Score:1)
Seriously, I love hearing stories of how MS calls people to tell them their computers have a problem. Especially when those users are Mac users. My cousin uses a Chromebook and laughed her ass off on the phone when they called.
he was tracked down (Score:4, Insightful)
Investigators tracked down Uadiale because this happened before Bitcoin became popular
No, they tracked him down because he was committing a crime. Whether or not it would have been easier to track him down if he'd used bitcoin is another question.
Elite scammer (Score:5, Funny)
At least he took it a step further than email scams
The accused is Raymond Uadiale, 41, a naturalized US citizen of Nigerian descent