Security News > 2021 > October > Feds cuff Russian said to be developer of 'Trickbot' ransomware

The US Department of Justice claims it's arrested a member of a gang that deployed the Trickbot ransomware.

A heavily-redacted indictment names Vladimir Dunaev as a developer of the malware, and alleges he was "a Malware Developer for the Trickbot Group, overseeing the creation of internet browser injection, machine identification, and data harvesting codes used by the Trickbot malware".

Trickbot is a banking trojan derived from a similar piece of malware called "Dyre".

Dunaev's been charged with running Trickbot, unauthorised access to computers, stealing money, and laundering the proceeds through US bank accounts.

Dunaev is the second person charged with running Trickbot.

Redactions in Dunaev's indictment document black out the names of other defendants, suggesting more of the Trickbot gang has been identified.

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