Related: North Korean hackers target crypto devs with fake recruitment testsCybercrime in Russia — almost legalDemchuk said that groups offering crypto drainers as a service are increasingly bold and keep resembling traditional businesses more and more:“Interestingly, some drainer groups have become so bold and professionalized that they even set up booths at industry conferences — CryptoGrab being one such example.“When asked how a criminal operation can send representatives to information technology industry events without repercussions, such as arrests, he pointed to Russian cybercrime enforcement as the reason.“This can all be done in jurisdictions like Russia, where hacking is now essentially legalized if you're not operating across the post-Soviet space,” he said.
He said:“Interestingly, some drainer groups have become so bold and professionalized that they even set up booths at industry conferences—CryptoGrab being one such example.“When asked how a criminal operation can send representatives to information technology industry events without repercussions, such as arrests, he pointed to Russian cybercrime enforcement as the reason.“This can all be done in jurisdictions like Russia, where hacking is now essentially legalized if you're not operating across the post-Soviet space,” he said.
AMLBot’s open source intelligence investigator — who prefers to remain anonymous for safety reasons — told Cointelegraph that while researching drainers, his team “did come across several job postings specifically targeting developers to build drainers for Web3 ecosystems.”He provided one job advert that describes the required features of a script that would empty Hedera (HBAR) wallets.
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