NATION
THE INSIDE STORY OF
ORGANIZED CYBERCRIME—FROM GLOBAL
EPIDEMIC TO YOUR FRONT DOOR
BRIAN KREBSCONTENTS
Chapter 1: Parasite
Chapter 2: Bulletproof
Chapter 3: The Pharma Wars
Chapter 4: Meet the Buyers
Chapter 5: Russian Roulette
Chapter 6: Partner(ka)s in (Dis)Organized Crime
Chapter 7: Meet the Spammers
Chapter 8: Old Friends, Bitter Enemies
Chapter 9: Meeting in Moscow
Chapter 10: The Antis
Chapter 11: Takedown
Chapter 12: Endgame
Epilogue: A Spam-Free World: How You Can Protect Yourself from
Cybercrime
Acknowledgments
Sources
About the AuthorWHO’S WHO IN THE CYBERWORLD
PAVEL VRUBLEVSKY, a.k.a “RedEye"—Cofounder of ChronoPay, a high-risk card
processor and payment service provider that was closely tied to the rogue antivirus
industry. Co-founder of Rx-Promotion pharmacy affiliate program.
YURI KABAYENKOV, a.k.a. “Hellman"—Co-owner of Rx-Promotion along with Pavel
Vrublevsky.
IGOR GUSEY, a.k.a "Desp"—Cofounder of ChronoPay, and co-owner of the
pharmacy spam partnerships Spamit and GlavMed.
DMITRY STUPIN—Co-owner, along with Igor Gusev, of the pharmacy partnerships
Spamit and GlavMed.
IGOR VISHNEVSKY—A spammer who helped develop the “Cutwail” spam botnet,
and a one-time business partner of Dmitri “Gugle” Nechvolod, a major spammer.
DMITRY NECHVOLOD, a.k.a. “Gugle"—One of Spamit and Rx-Promotion’s most
successful spammers, Gugle rented out his “Cutwail’ spam botnet for use by many
other junk emailers.
GENNADY LOGINOV—A Belarusian man and leader of a militant organized crime
group known as “The Village.” Partner with Alexander Rubatsky and involved in the
kidnapping and ransom of Evgeny “Pet” Petrovsky—a rival businessman.
ALEXANDER RUBATSKY—A Belarusian hacker closely tied to the child
pornography industry who later founded the Russian Business Network (RBN) in
St. Petersburg, Russia.
EVGENY PETROVSKY, a.k.a. “Pet’—Belarusian owner of companies Sunbill and
BillCards, credit card processing networks that were deeply involved in processing
payments for child pornography sites.
NIKOLAI MCCOLO, a.k.a "Kolya’—The young entrepreneur behind McColo Corp.,
which until its demise in 2008 was among the most popular Web hosting providers
in the cybercrime underground.
LEONID KUVAYEV—A convicted spammer who ran the RxPartners pharmacy spam
affiliate program. Kuvayev is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence in Russia
for child molestation and child pornography.