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        <title><![CDATA[Cybercriminal Maksim Yakubets is the hacker linked to Garmin outage]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The leader of the cybercrime gang linked to Garmin&#8217;s massive service outage is a big-spending playboy hacker with an affinity for sports cars and alleged ties to the Russian government.</p><p><span >Maksim Yakubets is the alleged ringleader of Evil Corp., the hacker group that reportedly <strong>claimed the smartwatch maker</strong> as its latest victim last week. The Moscow-based bloc is behind the WastedLocker ransomware that took out Garmin&#8217;s fitness-tracking platform for about four days before it was partially restored by Monday morning, according to news reports.</span></p><p>While Garmin confirmed that a cyber attack caused the outage, it’s uncertain whether Yakubets was personally involved. But he has a long history of using malicious software to steal fortunes from firms around the world, according to American and British officials who want to hunt him down.</p><p>The feds brought criminal charges last year against Yakubets — who goes by the pseudonym &#8220;aqua&#8221; online — for his key role in two hacking schemes that targeted dozens of victims with financial malware starting in 2009.</p><p><span >Yakubets and others used the malicious programs to steal banking information from computers and then siphon money from the accounts of banks, companies, municipalities and other targets, the <strong>US Department of Justice alleged</strong> in December.</span></p><p>The hackers allegedly stole roughly $70 million from victims in about a dozen states with their &#8220;Zeus&#8221; malware, which they started using in 2009, the feds have said. Another program known as &#8220;Dridex&#8221; was set up to target customers of almost 300 organizations in more than 40 countries, <strong>according to the UK&#8217;s National Crime Agency</strong>, which accused Evil Corp. of causing &#8220;hundreds of millions&#8221; of British pounds in financial losses.</p><p> <noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/Maksim-Yakubets-father-in-law.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/Maksim-Yakubets-father-in-law.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/Maksim-Yakubets-father-in-law.jpg" /></p><p> Maksim Yakubets&#8217;s father-in-law Eduard Bendersky</p><p class="credit">Eduard Bendersky</p><p> <noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/Maksim_Yakubets_wedding1.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/Maksim_Yakubets_wedding1.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/Maksim_Yakubets_wedding1.jpg" /></p><p> Maksim Yakubets&#8217; wedding</p><p class="credit">Caramel Studio</p><p>Yakubets also has alleged links to the Kremlin — he was working for Russia’s Federal Security Service as of 2017 and sought a license the following year to work with Russian classified information from the intelligence agency, US officials said in December</p><p>The US State Department has put out a $5 million reward for information leading to Yakubets&#8217;s capture. But his status as an international fugitive reportedly hasn&#8217;t stopped him from living extravagantly.</p><p>Yakubets owns a custom Lamborghini with a camouflage-like paint job and a personalized plate that translates to &#8220;Thief,&#8221; according to UK authorities, <a href="https://twitter.com/NCA_UK/status/1202644233586393088" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">who released video</a> of a similar-looking car doing donuts in a parking lot.</p><p>Yakubets also reportedly spent more than $300,000 on his extravagant wedding to a businesswoman named Alyona Benderskaya. Yakubets&#8217;s face was concealed in images from the extravagant 2017 ceremony at a luxe golf club near Moscow, which featured an appearance from the Russian singer Leonid Agutin, <strong>according to a report from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.</strong></p><p> <noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/Maksim_Yakubets-wife.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/Maksim_Yakubets-wife.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/Maksim_Yakubets-wife.jpg" /></p><p> Alyona Benderskaya</p><p class="credit">Caramel Studio</p><p> <noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/Maksim-Yakubets-wife-alyona-east2west_news.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/Maksim-Yakubets-wife-alyona-east2west_news.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/Maksim-Yakubets-wife-alyona-east2west_news.jpg" /></p><p> Alyona Benderskaya</p><p class="credit">Alyona Yakubets</p><p>A Russian wedding-planning firm called Karamel that arranged the event reportedly described the couple&#8217;s vision for the bash on its website.</p><p>&#8220;She saw her wedding exclusively as a classic, luxurious peony,&#8221; the company wrote, <strong>according to The Sun</strong>. &#8220;He, on the contrary, saw it as only modern and technologically advanced.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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