Posted on 06/16/2021 4:15:48 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Just how did a self-employed web site designer and mother of two come to work for one of the world’s most rapacious cybercriminal groups and then leave such an obvious trail of clues indicating her involvement with the gang?
It is hard to think of an accused cybercriminal who has made more stunningly poor and rookie operational security mistakes than this Latvian senior citizen.
For starters, it appears at one point in 2020 Witte actually hosted Trickbot malware on a vanity website registered in her name — allawitte[.]nl.
Unlike many accused cybercriminals who hail from Russia or former Soviet countries, Witte did not feel obligated to avoid traveling to areas where she might be within reach of U.S. law enforcement agencies. According to her indictment, Witte was living in the South American nation of Suriname and she was arrested in Miami while flying from Suriname. It is not clear where her intended destination was.
The government’s indictment dedicates several pages to describing the hiring processes of the Trickbot group, which continuously scoured fee-based Russian and Belarussian-based job websites for resumes of programmers looking for work. Those who responded were asked to create various programs designed to test the applicant’s problem-solving and coding skills.
“There’s a two-step hiring process where at first you may not understand who you’re working for,” said the source. “But that timeframe is typically pretty short, like less than a year.”
After that, if the candidate is talented and industrious enough, someone in the Trickbot group will “read in” the new recruit — i.e. explain in plain terms how their work is being used.
(Excerpt) Read more at krebsonsecurity.com ...
1. Join the democrat party.
2. Join any of the Facebook-Amazon-Twitter-Redditt-Quora-YouTube censorship groups.
3. Join any of the ABCNNBCBS-NYTimes-WashPoop MSNBC gangs.
Or you could go with the amateurs overseas in Russia-Nigeria-China.
Fascinating. Thanks for posting.
Or join TheSun . UK and hack celebrity phones, emails, etc all day with impunity.
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