The Bayrob malware gang’s rise and fall

Three Romanians ran an extremely complex online fraud operation along with a massive malware botnet for nine years, made tens of millions of US dollars, but their crime spree is now over, and all three will be heading to prison by the end of August this year. The three were arrested in late 2016 after the FBI and Symantec had silently stalked their malware servers for years, patiently waiting for the highly skilled group to make mistakes that would leave enough of a breadcrumb trail to follow back to their real identities. Those errors came in 2015, when of the group’s proxy servers began leaking details about the group’s traffic, eventually leading investigators on the right path, and when later that year one of the hackers made an unfortunate trip to Miami, where the FBI secretly search his phone at the border. A year later, Romanian police were busting apartment doors in Bucharest, Romania’s capital, and taking the group’s members into custody. This week, two of this gang’s members were found guilty by a federal jury, while a third had already pleaded guilty last November. The three now stand to face long prison sentences on nearly two-dozen charges, each. Who is the Bayrob gang? The three hackers are Bogdan Nicolescu (“Masterfraud” or “mf”), Radu Miclaus (“Minolta” or “min”), and Tiberiu Danet (aka “Amightysa” or “amy”). Collectively, they are now known as the Bayrob gang, after the name Symantec gave to malware the group first developed back in 2007. That’s when the group started on their path of cybercrime. Just like all “entrepreneurs,” they first started small. They chose to cover fraud because, at the time, that’s what most Romanian hackers were in to. In the mid-2000s, Romania was one of the most prodigious countries in the world of cybercrime. Some…

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