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The US Department of Justice has charged two citizens of the United States with helping "Russian hackers" break into the taxi dispatcher service of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
The agency's report states that " for many years, hacker attacks by the defendants prevented honest taxi drivers from paying for travel at JFK in the order in which they arrived. Thanks to the joint work of the Ministry of Justice and the airport administration, these defendants face serious criminal charges for their alleged cybercrime."
According to the prosecutor's office, 48-year-old New Yorkers Daniel Abaev and Peter Layman" in collusion with Russian citizens " hacked the electronic dispatch system of the taxi service at JFK airport. This allegedly allowed them to bring certain taxis to the front of the queue in exchange for a fee.
As specified in the Ministry of Justice, cyber attacks were committed in the period from 2019 to 2020. Police arrested the accused in Queens. The two men now face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
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Two 48-year-old Americans with the help of "Russian hackers" hacked the IT system of a New York taxi and earned $10 thousand a day. They issued taxi drivers passes to the front of the queue of similar drivers at JFK Airport, so that they could be the first to pick up a passenger and leave. They paid hackers $100 thousand.
How the Russians helped the Americans
Two Americans bribed "Russian hackers" to break into the taxi dispatcher service in New York (USA), writes The Register with reference to the US Department of Justice. The purpose of the cyberattack was to earn money from taxi drivers who prefer to search for passengers at airports, but do not want to wait in line among other cabbies.
US citizens, Daniel Abayev and Peter Leyman, came up with a scheme that allowed taxi drivers not to stand in line for a customer, but to become a little richer. According to the Ministry of Justice, enterprising 48-year-old Americans agreed with "Russian hackers "to hack the information system, which allowed them to write out so-called" passes " to taxi drivers at the beginning of the queue in exchange for a modest reward of $10 (690 rubles at the exchange rate of the Central Bank on December 21, 2022).
Men went to success. It didn't work out
Abayev and Leyman launched their business at JFK Airport. At the time of publication of the material, it was not known exactly how much they managed to earn from taxi drivers, but the amounts can be estimated in millions of dollars. There was also no information about who exactly complained about them to law enforcement agencies – airport employees who found traces of hacking, or one of the taxi drivers who felt that $10 was too high a fee for being able to get a client without waiting for a long time.
According to the materials of the Ministry of Justice, "Russian hackers" conducted an attack on the taxi information system in the period from 2019 to 2020. A more precise date has not been set. Thus, Abaev and Leiman could earn money for years on impatient taxi drivers.
The identity of the cybercriminals is unknown. The exact amount of money they received for their work is also available. According to The Register, the service of "Russian hackers" cost Abaev and Leiman $100 thousand (6.9 million rubles).
According to preliminary estimates, every day about 1,000 taxi drivers used the opportunity to go around the queue and stand at its beginning. Thus, every day "businessmen" earned $10 thousand (690 thousand rubles) for two, that is, they were able to compensate for the cost of hackers in less than two weeks, after which they began to make a net profit.
Also, there is no data yet on why the Americans turned to specialists from Russia.
Large-scale network
Abayev and Leiman worked on a large scale. They preferred to communicate with drivers via instant messengers, where they created shared chats in which they were notified about the possibility of saving time. Payments were accepted in cash or via mobile money transfers.
To use this scheme, drivers sent their taxi company employee ID numbers to a group chat. In response, they received a message telling them which terminal to go to to pay their fare. In other words, Abayev and Leyman did not have any contact with them in real life.
Entrepreneurs even came up with a system of bonuses and incentives that provides drivers with a 100% discount on their services. To get the right to free travel to the front of the queue, you had to connect another driver to the system who had not previously used their services. As a result, everyone won – Abaev and Leiman got a new client, and the driver saved $10.
Super-secret hacking
The indictment documents do not specify exactly how the hackers managed to break into the taxi's computer system, what methods they used for this, and what they eventually did when they were inside the network. But they cite a violation of the American law on computer Fraud and abuse, which involves the use of malware.,
According to The Register, before turning to hackers for help, they tried to break into the system on their own, including by bribing one of the employees of the taxi dispatcher service. They wanted to give the employee a bribe in exchange for launching a flash drive with malware on computers in the control room. They offered someone money for the password from the Wi-Fi network in the control room, and someone-for stealing tablet computers connected to this network.
Currently, Abayev and Leiman are charged with two counts each of conspiracy to hack a computer, with a maximum penalty of ten years in prison. The court will determine the number of years of imprisonment.
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A federal court in the United States has filed charges against two new defendants in the case of hacking the digital taxi distribution system at JFK Airport, New York, committed several years ago. Both men are active citizens of the Russian Federation, who are still at large.
At the same time, two previously successfully detained suspects, this time with American citizenship, have already pleaded guilty to participating in this scheme, which from September 2019 to September 2021 allowed them to charge taxi drivers for early receipt of orders.
The illegal feature, which" digital businessmen estimated at $ 10 for a one-time movement to the top of the list, quickly gained popularity among local taxi drivers, as it allowed them not to stand in line to receive an order for several hours.
Thirty-year-olds Alexander Derebentsov ("Sasha Novgorod"), and Kirill Shipulin ("Kirill Russia"), were charged by an American court on October 30. On the same day, 47-year-old Daniel Abayev, who was detained earlier, admitted his role in the hacking, while 49-year-old Peter Layman, an accomplice of Abayev, pleaded guilty in early October.
According to the latest information from the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), Derebenz and Shipulin participated in the fraud from 2019 to 2021, operating from Russia, while Abaev and Leiman conducted business locally, located in Queens, New York.
Allegedly, the suspects managed to bribe one of the local employees of the taxi distribution system to insert a virus flash drive into the work computer and thereby open remote unauthorized access to Russian hackers.
As a result of this illegal operation, up to a thousand taxi drivers a day could bypass the queue, which indicates the scale of the crime, involving hundreds of accomplices.
If found guilty, Derebenz and Shipulin could each be sentenced to ten years in prison in a U.S. prison. However, both hackers are most likely currently in Russia and are unlikely to be extradited to the United States.
At the same time, Abayev and Leyman, who have already admitted their role in the crime, can be sentenced to at least five years. The final sentence for the men will be handed down in 2024.
Damian Williams, the US attorney, stressed: "Cyber hacking can pose a serious threat to the infrastructure systems that we rely on every day, and our task is to pursue criminal hackers, whether they are in Russia or here in New York."
The agency's report states that " for many years, hacker attacks by the defendants prevented honest taxi drivers from paying for travel at JFK in the order in which they arrived. Thanks to the joint work of the Ministry of Justice and the airport administration, these defendants face serious criminal charges for their alleged cybercrime."
According to the prosecutor's office, 48-year-old New Yorkers Daniel Abaev and Peter Layman" in collusion with Russian citizens " hacked the electronic dispatch system of the taxi service at JFK airport. This allegedly allowed them to bring certain taxis to the front of the queue in exchange for a fee.
As specified in the Ministry of Justice, cyber attacks were committed in the period from 2019 to 2020. Police arrested the accused in Queens. The two men now face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
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Two 48-year-old Americans with the help of "Russian hackers" hacked the IT system of a New York taxi and earned $10 thousand a day. They issued taxi drivers passes to the front of the queue of similar drivers at JFK Airport, so that they could be the first to pick up a passenger and leave. They paid hackers $100 thousand.
How the Russians helped the Americans
Two Americans bribed "Russian hackers" to break into the taxi dispatcher service in New York (USA), writes The Register with reference to the US Department of Justice. The purpose of the cyberattack was to earn money from taxi drivers who prefer to search for passengers at airports, but do not want to wait in line among other cabbies.
US citizens, Daniel Abayev and Peter Leyman, came up with a scheme that allowed taxi drivers not to stand in line for a customer, but to become a little richer. According to the Ministry of Justice, enterprising 48-year-old Americans agreed with "Russian hackers "to hack the information system, which allowed them to write out so-called" passes " to taxi drivers at the beginning of the queue in exchange for a modest reward of $10 (690 rubles at the exchange rate of the Central Bank on December 21, 2022).
Men went to success. It didn't work out
Abayev and Leyman launched their business at JFK Airport. At the time of publication of the material, it was not known exactly how much they managed to earn from taxi drivers, but the amounts can be estimated in millions of dollars. There was also no information about who exactly complained about them to law enforcement agencies – airport employees who found traces of hacking, or one of the taxi drivers who felt that $10 was too high a fee for being able to get a client without waiting for a long time.
According to the materials of the Ministry of Justice, "Russian hackers" conducted an attack on the taxi information system in the period from 2019 to 2020. A more precise date has not been set. Thus, Abaev and Leiman could earn money for years on impatient taxi drivers.
The identity of the cybercriminals is unknown. The exact amount of money they received for their work is also available. According to The Register, the service of "Russian hackers" cost Abaev and Leiman $100 thousand (6.9 million rubles).
According to preliminary estimates, every day about 1,000 taxi drivers used the opportunity to go around the queue and stand at its beginning. Thus, every day "businessmen" earned $10 thousand (690 thousand rubles) for two, that is, they were able to compensate for the cost of hackers in less than two weeks, after which they began to make a net profit.
Also, there is no data yet on why the Americans turned to specialists from Russia.
Large-scale network
Abayev and Leiman worked on a large scale. They preferred to communicate with drivers via instant messengers, where they created shared chats in which they were notified about the possibility of saving time. Payments were accepted in cash or via mobile money transfers.
To use this scheme, drivers sent their taxi company employee ID numbers to a group chat. In response, they received a message telling them which terminal to go to to pay their fare. In other words, Abayev and Leyman did not have any contact with them in real life.
Entrepreneurs even came up with a system of bonuses and incentives that provides drivers with a 100% discount on their services. To get the right to free travel to the front of the queue, you had to connect another driver to the system who had not previously used their services. As a result, everyone won – Abaev and Leiman got a new client, and the driver saved $10.
Super-secret hacking
The indictment documents do not specify exactly how the hackers managed to break into the taxi's computer system, what methods they used for this, and what they eventually did when they were inside the network. But they cite a violation of the American law on computer Fraud and abuse, which involves the use of malware.,
According to The Register, before turning to hackers for help, they tried to break into the system on their own, including by bribing one of the employees of the taxi dispatcher service. They wanted to give the employee a bribe in exchange for launching a flash drive with malware on computers in the control room. They offered someone money for the password from the Wi-Fi network in the control room, and someone-for stealing tablet computers connected to this network.
Currently, Abayev and Leiman are charged with two counts each of conspiracy to hack a computer, with a maximum penalty of ten years in prison. The court will determine the number of years of imprisonment.
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A federal court in the United States has filed charges against two new defendants in the case of hacking the digital taxi distribution system at JFK Airport, New York, committed several years ago. Both men are active citizens of the Russian Federation, who are still at large.
At the same time, two previously successfully detained suspects, this time with American citizenship, have already pleaded guilty to participating in this scheme, which from September 2019 to September 2021 allowed them to charge taxi drivers for early receipt of orders.
The illegal feature, which" digital businessmen estimated at $ 10 for a one-time movement to the top of the list, quickly gained popularity among local taxi drivers, as it allowed them not to stand in line to receive an order for several hours.
Thirty-year-olds Alexander Derebentsov ("Sasha Novgorod"), and Kirill Shipulin ("Kirill Russia"), were charged by an American court on October 30. On the same day, 47-year-old Daniel Abayev, who was detained earlier, admitted his role in the hacking, while 49-year-old Peter Layman, an accomplice of Abayev, pleaded guilty in early October.
According to the latest information from the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), Derebenz and Shipulin participated in the fraud from 2019 to 2021, operating from Russia, while Abaev and Leiman conducted business locally, located in Queens, New York.
Allegedly, the suspects managed to bribe one of the local employees of the taxi distribution system to insert a virus flash drive into the work computer and thereby open remote unauthorized access to Russian hackers.
As a result of this illegal operation, up to a thousand taxi drivers a day could bypass the queue, which indicates the scale of the crime, involving hundreds of accomplices.
If found guilty, Derebenz and Shipulin could each be sentenced to ten years in prison in a U.S. prison. However, both hackers are most likely currently in Russia and are unlikely to be extradited to the United States.
At the same time, Abayev and Leyman, who have already admitted their role in the crime, can be sentenced to at least five years. The final sentence for the men will be handed down in 2024.
Damian Williams, the US attorney, stressed: "Cyber hacking can pose a serious threat to the infrastructure systems that we rely on every day, and our task is to pursue criminal hackers, whether they are in Russia or here in New York."