16 Charged in Connection with DanaBot Malware Allegedly Commanded from Russia
The US has charged 16 people allegedly responsible for developing and deploying the DanaBot botnet operated from Russia.
The defendants include Aleksandr Stepanov, 39, a.k.a. “JimmBee,” and Artem Aleksandrovich Kalinkin, 34, a.k.a. “Onix,” both of Novosibirsk, Russia.
Along with more than a dozen others, they are charged with developing, deploying, and infecting more than 300,000 victim computers around the world, facilitating fraud and ransomware, and inflicting at least $50 million in damage
