A group of four Vietnamese individuals has been accused in a U.S. court of carrying out a series of cyber attacks that resulted in losses exceeding $71 million. These individuals, who are affiliated with the cybercrime syndicate known as “FIN9,” reportedly breached American companies between May 2018 and October 2021, absconding with confidential data, employee perks, and monetary assets. By utilizing pilfered personal and credit card details, they established accounts on cryptocurrency platforms to obscure their true identities. Furthermore, they marketed purloined gift cards on decentralized cryptocurrency marketplaces. The charges leveled against them encompass plotting to perpetrate fraud, wire fraud, causing deliberate harm to safeguarded computer systems, money laundering, and identity theft, carrying potential sentences of up to two decades behind bars.
