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Help Wanted: Cyber Trash
It’s gratifying to see Russian cyber scum (okay alleged) snatched at the border crossing from their country trying to take a vacation using their ill-gotten gains (okay alleged). The need to escape Russia and go someplace nice to de-compress after holding up a multitude of businesses across the globe is understandable.
Our friends at CyberScoop said this after the Department of Justice gave a no comment on the extradition of Vasinskyi late last year:
Polish law enforcement authorities have arrested a Ukrainian man charged with an array of cyber-related crimes at the behest of the U.S. government, which is now seeking his extradition, court documents obtained by CyberScoop reveal.
Yaroslav Vasinskyi, 22, was arrested on Oct. 8 at a border crossing in Dorohusk, a village located on the Polish and Ukrainian border, according to a filing signed by a prosecutor from the Lublin Local Office, a government office in the southeastern city of Chelm.
A witness statement report reveals that Vasinskyi was apprehended in connection with an international search by U.S. authorities. Vasinskyi is charged with committing fraud, accessing a protected computer without authorization and conspiracy with the purpose of money laundering, the charges show. While the charges remain sealed in the U.S., prosecutors in the District Court of Northern…
