The court sentenced members of the Infraud Organization hack group, associated with the once-famous UniCC card forum, to suspended sentences for illegally trading bank card data with damage totaling more than 1 billion rubles.
Let me remind you that the members of The Infraud Organization were detained by Russian law enforcement officers at the beginning of 2022. Then law enforcement officers arrested the alleged founder of the group, Andrei Novak, for two months on charges of computer crimes and money laundering (in the United States, he is wanted on charges of cyber fraud). Three other suspects were placed under house arrest.
As the media reported at the time, Novak was known on the underground forums under such nicknames as Faxtrod, Faaxxx and Unicc, and was the administrator of the UniCC carder forum. In mid-January 2022, this resource unexpectedly announced its closure, and then its leaders wrote that there was no need to build conspiracy theories about their departure, as this was a balanced decision, they were no longer young, and “health does not allow living / working in this mode anymore “.
Shortly after the closure of UniCC, law enforcers reported that in addition to Novak, three members of the group were arrested – Kirill Samokutyaev, Konstantin Vladimirovich Bergman and Mark Avramovich Bergman.
At the beginning of this month, we wrote that in court all participants of the Infraud Organization pleaded guilty to illegal trading in bank card data with damage totaling more than 1 billion rubles.
According to the indictment, the Bergman brothers, not later than 2012, created the “unicvv.ru online trading platform”, where any registered user, having replenished the balance of his account, could acquire the stolen data of bank cards and foreign social security numbers. Soon they were joined by Novak and Samokutyaev, as well as persons unidentified by the investigation. It was possible to expose the activities of the members of the hacker association thanks to the joint work of the “K” department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the FSB.
As TASS reports, the defendants were threatened with up to seven years in prison, but the admission of guilt was taken into account as a mitigating circumstance. As a result, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow gave the former UniCC administrators suspended sentences.