Investigators learned from Polish border guards that Sokolovsky had fled Ukraine in a Porsche Cayenne along with a young blond woman, leaving his mother and other family behind. 18, 2022, his phone suddenly showed up in Poland. Authorities monitoring Sokolovsky’s iCloud account had spent weeks watching him shuttle between Kharkiv and the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, but on Mar. When Russia invaded Ukraine in late February 2022, Sokolovsky was living in Kharkiv, a city in northeast Ukraine that would soon come under heavy artillery bombardment from Russian forces. Justice Department, FBI agents have identified more than 50 million unique credentials and forms of identification (email addresses, bank accounts, cryptocurrency addresses, credit card numbers, etc.) stolen with the help of Raccoon.Ī selfie pulled from Mark Sokolovsky’s iCloud account. authorities seized a copy of the server used by Raccoon to help customers manage their botnets. Working with investigators in Italy and The Netherlands, U.S. Security experts say the passwords and other data stolen by Raccoon malware were often resold to groups engaged in deploying ransomware. Raccoon was essentially a Web-based control panel, where - for $200 a month - customers could get the latest version of the Raccoon Infostealer malware, and interact with infected systems in real time.
Attorney for the Western District of Texas unsealed an indictment last week that named Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky as the core developer for the Raccoon Infostealer business, which was marketed on several Russian-language cybercrime forums beginning in 2019. This image was taken by Polish border authorities as Sokolovsky’s vehicle entered Germany. 18 fleeing mandatory military service in Ukraine. Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky, seen here in a Porsche Cayenne on Mar.
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