negativeSYS.SOURCE: The Hacker News• 2026-10-08T13:11:44+05:30

MonsterCloud Owner Charged with Ransom Fraud and Wire Fraud Scheme

#ransomware #fraud #cybersecurity

Zohar Pinhasi, owner of MonsterCloud, faces fraud charges for deceiving ransomware victims by secretly paying attackers to decrypt data while charging clients significantly higher fees. The U.S. DOJ and FBI allege he collected over $19 million by exploiting victims' crises, with ransom payments totaling over $8 million.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced charges against a 50-year-old U.S. and Israeli national for allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying the attackers to obtain decryptors while claiming to use proprietary tools to recover their data.

Zohar Pinhasi (aka Zack Silver and Zack Green) has been charged with two counts of wire fraud and one count of wire

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> WAZZA PHISHKIT EXPLOITS MULTI-STAGE ROUTING TO TARGET CRITICAL SECTORS IN MULTIPLE REGIONS > 16 MALICIOUS FIREFOX EXTENSIONS IMITATING RABBY AND OKX WALLETS STEAL CRYPTOCURRENCY RECOVERY PHRASES > OPENAI WITHDRAWS THREE MATHEMATICS PAPERS DUE TO SIGN ERROR IN KEY ARGUMENTS > U.S. OFFERS $10 MILLION REWARD FOR INFORMATION ON ZHANG YU LINKED TO HAFNIUM CYBERATTACKS > MONSTERCLOUD OWNER CHARGED WITH RANSOM FRAUD AND WIRE FRAUD SCHEME > DECENTRALIZED DATA INFRASTRUCTURE: HIGH-LEVEL APPLICATIONS USING PEER-TO-PEER PROTOCOLS > RECREATING CLASSIC PC DEMOSCENE DEMOS IN BROWSER VIA X86 EMULATION > INDIA DENIES ELON MUSK'S DISCRIMINATION ALLEGATIONS AGAINST STARLINK LAUNCH > COMPROMISED TENSORLAKE NPM PACKAGE EXPLOITED TO DISTRIBUTE SHAI-HULUD CREDENTIAL-STEALING WORM > TERENCE TAO'S VISION FOR MATH 2.0: HOLISTIC EVALUATION OF MATHEMATICAL PROGRESS> WAZZA PHISHKIT EXPLOITS MULTI-STAGE ROUTING TO TARGET CRITICAL SECTORS IN MULTIPLE REGIONS > 16 MALICIOUS FIREFOX EXTENSIONS IMITATING RABBY AND OKX WALLETS STEAL CRYPTOCURRENCY RECOVERY PHRASES > OPENAI WITHDRAWS THREE MATHEMATICS PAPERS DUE TO SIGN ERROR IN KEY ARGUMENTS > U.S. OFFERS $10 MILLION REWARD FOR INFORMATION ON ZHANG YU LINKED TO HAFNIUM CYBERATTACKS > MONSTERCLOUD OWNER CHARGED WITH RANSOM FRAUD AND WIRE FRAUD SCHEME > DECENTRALIZED DATA INFRASTRUCTURE: HIGH-LEVEL APPLICATIONS USING PEER-TO-PEER PROTOCOLS > RECREATING CLASSIC PC DEMOSCENE DEMOS IN BROWSER VIA X86 EMULATION > INDIA DENIES ELON MUSK'S DISCRIMINATION ALLEGATIONS AGAINST STARLINK LAUNCH > COMPROMISED TENSORLAKE NPM PACKAGE EXPLOITED TO DISTRIBUTE SHAI-HULUD CREDENTIAL-STEALING WORM > TERENCE TAO'S VISION FOR MATH 2.0: HOLISTIC EVALUATION OF MATHEMATICAL PROGRESS