Microsoft Engineer Charged in Reveton Ransomware Case

[Faybert]

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-engineer-charged-in-reveton-ransomware-case/

A Microsoft network engineer is facing federal charges in Florida for allegedly helping launder money obtained from victims of the Reventon ransomware.

The accused is Raymond Uadiale, 41, a naturalized US citizen of Nigerian descent, who currently works for Microsoft in Seattle since 2014, according to his LinkedIn page.

Florida investigators say that between October 2012 and March 2013, Uadiale worked with a UK citizen going online by the moniker K!NG. The latter would distribute and infect victims with the Reveton ransomware, while Uadiale would collect payments and send the money to K!NG, in the UK.
Uadiale accused of sending money from the US to the UK

The Reveton ransomware is one of the first screen-locking ransomware strains, and it appeared when Bitcoin was still in its infancy, and before it became the cryptocurrency of choice in all ransomware operations.

Instead, Reveton operators asked victims to buy GreenDot MoneyPak vouchers, take the code on the voucher and enter it in the Reveton screen locker.
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[spaceoctopus]

You're a MS engineer. Well paid, well off in one of the biggest tech company in the world. Guess what, as if it wasn't enough, you decide to enter the Ransomware business

 

[mekelek]

You're a MS engineer. Well paid, well off in one of the biggest tech company in the world. Guess what, as if it wasn't enough, you decide to enter the Ransomware business

its the perfect field for an MS engineer, he has access to all undocumented api's and functions that he could use for his ransomware that AVs probably won't detect
easy money, unless you get caught

 

[Mikesierra]

How stupid can one be?

 

[spaceoctopus]

its the perfect field for an MS engineer, he has access to all undocumented api's and functions that he could use for his ransomware that AVs probably won't detect
easy money, unless you get caught

Agreed

 

[tim one]

MS engineer who becomes cybercriminal? Well he wouldn't be a lamer for sure...