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NATION THE INSIDE STORY OF ORGANIZED CYBERCRIME—FROM GLOBAL EPIDEMIC TO YOUR FRONT DOOR BRIAN KREBS CONTENTS 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 Author WHO’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.

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