Security News > 2021 > April > Sysadmin for FIN7 criminal cracking group gets 10 years in US prison for managing card slurping malware scam
The former systems administrator for the FIN7 card-slurping gang has been sentenced to 10 years in a US prison.
Fedir Hladyr, 35, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit computer hacking last year, and on Friday was sentenced for his role in the theft and resale of over than 20 million customer card records from over 6,500 point-of-sale terminals across the US using the malware dubbed Carbanak.
Hladyr set up a front company, Combi Security, to cover his actions as he funneled the purloined data around the criminal underworld.
Barely a day after updating Chrome 89 to deal with a JavaScript engine security flaw, Google upgraded again to version 90.0.4430.72, fixing yet more security issues.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has advised an update as soon as possible.
Katie Moussouris, founder of Luta Security and founder of the pay Equity Now Foundation, told The Register that she'd acted as a proxy for a partial-victory payout of 60 per cent, and felt that was merited here.
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