Cybercrime headlines today include the sentencing of a Latvian national involved with Karakurt and other ransomware gangs, who was sentenced to 102 months in prison. Reading the court filings on the case, the FBI's affidavit rang a bell at one point.

In October 2023, I was contacted by someone claiming to be a cybersecurity researcher who had found one of Karakurt and Akira's storage servers. They told me that they were contacting the gangs' victims and trying to get paid for finding the data and research. It didn't sound "whitehat" to me, and when "anonymoux" said he tried to get a reward from Rewards for Justice but had gotten no reply and wanted to get in touch with the FBI, I agreed to help them make contact with the FBI. While many TAs avoid law enforcement, DataBreaches has known several who want to be in touch with the FBI. While some want to try to make deals because they think they are about to be arrested, others just think they will outsmart the FBI. "Anonymoux" seemed to be in that latter group.

I later wrote about my interactions with "anonymoux" in January 2024: https://databreaches.net/2024/01/10/follow-on-extortion-campaign-confirmation-of-some-findings-by-arctic-wolf/

Now that court filings for Deniss Zolotarjovs (Денисс Золотарёвс), aka "Sforza_cesarini," have been unsealed, you can read the FBI agent's affidavit in support of the complaint and arrest, in which he describes how he and Zolotarjovs chatted, and how he eventually concluded that "anonymoux" was Zolotarjovs:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ohsd.295291/gov.uscourts.ohsd.295291.6.0.pdf

#databreach #ransomware #karakurt #akira #tommyleaks #schoolboys #blockbit #

May 2025
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家庭简史 (BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAMILY)
dir Lin Jianjie, 2024

Parasites.

#family #drama #thriller #China #affluence #children #future #schoolboys

#RichardArmitage was #bullied for being #gay: ‘You’re #unlearning that for the rest of your #life’

Now, just a week before he turns 53, Armitage has detailed his experience of #homophobic #bullying as part of the #plot for his new #fiction #thriller #novel #TheCut, in which #lead #character is accosted by a gang of older #schoolboys.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Education #Hate #Bigotry #Bullying #Homophobia

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/19/richard-armitage-bullied-gay-red-eye-the-cut/

In 1965, six Tongan schoolboys were stranded on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific for a laugh.

#tonga #tongan #pacific #remote #islands #schoolboys #schoolkids #QI #notQI

How #SchoolBoys Outwitted the #Regulators

https://medium.com/the-radical-center/how-school-boys-outwitted-the-regulators-f9ee9138dfdb
Ultimately, the question a #freesociety should be asking is: Does the #regulation protect the #equalrights of people or does it violate those rights? For instance, while a #liberalsociety assumes individual #liberty is a right, that liberty always ends where the #rights of others begin.

Here we have a 90s nostalgia poem about some school boys who stumble upon a weathered porno magazine in the woods

https://maistvanjr.substack.com/p/volume-4-number-81993

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#blacktail #blacktailmagazine #poetryisnotdead #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetry #LiteraturePosts #literature #literatura #1993 #90snostalgia #boyhood #schoolboys