Ukrainian hacker arrested after allegedly providing bulletproof hosting to Russian security

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https://www.cyberscoop.com/mikhail-rytikov-ukrainian-hacker-arrested-ivan-bakanov/

By Jeff Stone
CYBERSCOOP
July 16, 2019

Ukrainian police have arrested an accused cybercriminal who allegedly 
facilitated a web hosting scheme that made it possible for hackers to carry out 
attacks while avoiding international law enforcement.

Mikhail Rytikov, a Ukrainian national, was apprehended in Odessa as part of an 
operation carried out with help from the U.S. and U.K., Ivan Bakanov, the head 
of Ukraine’s national security service, said in a statement Tuesday. U.S. 
police have sought Rytikov’s arrest since he was indicted in 2013, accusing him 
of orchestrating a hosting service that was used to gain access to corporate 
networks and steal more than 160 million credit card numbers, causing hundreds 
of millions of dollars in losses.

In his statement Tuesday, Bakanov said Rytikov was involved with a data center 
that held 150 servers and equipment that was used for distributed 
denial-of-service attacks as well as to spread spam and pornography. Rytikov 
controlled roughly 40 percent of the Russian-speaking dark web, Bakanov 
alleged, adding that he would rent his services on Russian-speaking criminal 
forums.

One client was Yevgeney Bogachev, the author of the notorious Zeus virus that’s 
been used to steal banking information from millions of computers, according to 
the authorities.

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