Security News > 2022 > October > Ukrainian charged for operating Raccoon Stealer malware service
26-year-old Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky has been charged for involvement in the Raccoon Stealer malware-as-a-service cybercrime operation.
Raccoon Stealer is an information-stealing trojan distributed under the MaaS model that threat actors can rent for $75/week or $200/month.
Raccoon Stealer is very popular since it steals a wide range of information from infected devices, such as stored browser credentials and information, credit cards, cryptocurrency wallets, email data, and various other types of sensitive data from numerous applications.
Around the time of the arrest, BleepingComputer reported that the Raccoon Stealer cybercrime group suspended its operations after claiming on Russian-speaking hacking forums that one of their lead developers was killed during the invasion of Ukraine.
The Raccoon Stealer operation has been relaunched in early June with the release of a new version, built from scratch using C/C++ and featuring a new back-end, front-end, as well as new data theft capabilities.
Since March, the FBI has been collecting some of the data stolen by cybercriminals using the Raccoon Stealer malware from infected computers.