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The group included three Ukrainians and one foreigner.
Workers of the Department for Combating Cybercrime in the Kharkiv Region identified all members of a criminal group that targeted attacks on private organizations and individuals to illegally gain access to their remote servers, and then sold these accesses. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to the press service of the National Police of Ukraine.
The group included three Ukrainians and one foreigner.
"They were all well-known participants in hacker forums and carried out orders for hacking remote servers located in Ukraine, Europe and the United States," the statement said.
It is noted that the criminal group acted since 2014. Its participants carried out bruteforce attacks on private enterprises and individuals. For attacks, specialized software was used that exploited vulnerabilities of Windows-based servers.
"They also used part of the servers for their own purposes: creating botnets for mining, DDOS attacks, installing command centers for viruses like" stealer ", turning them into tools for brute-force attacks on new network nodes," they said in the police.
In addition, part of the “hacked” servers was sold to other hackers who used the acquired information for their own purposes: extortion under the pretext of encrypting data, debiting money from bank cards, mining, etc.
"In this way, they managed to intervene in the computer networks of citizens of various countries: Ukraine, Russia, the USA, France, China, Bulgaria, India, Brazil, Malaysia and the countries of northern Europe," the police added.
Hackers earned criminal proceeds on crypto - and electronic wallets. So, almost 80 thousand dollars were revealed on several of their electronic wallets.
Law enforcement officers noted that to coordinate the actions of all members of the international hacker group, communication and communication between them took place through hidden messengers.
The cyberpolice, together with police investigators during the procedural management of the prosecutor's office of the Kharkiv region, conducted searches of the places of residence of the persons involved in the international hacker group.
Computer equipment, additional storage media, draft records, mobile phones and bank cards that were used to commit crimes were seized.
On this fact, the police began criminal proceedings under part 2 of article 361 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
According to the results of computer technology examinations, one of the participants has already been announced suspicion. The issue of declaring suspicion to other members of the criminal group is being resolved.
Investigators are preparing an international legal order regarding the recording of digital traces of crimes outside of Ukraine, documenting the criminal role and criminalizing an alien involved in the activities of a criminal group.