According to the affidavit of FBI agent BJ Kang, Irzak and Sladkov conducted trades involving 149 companies in advance of earnings announcements and achieved a success rate of 66 per cent – accurately anticipating whether the related share price would rise or fall. The scheme allegedly netted tens of millions of dollars for the participants. The separate complaint against Irzak and Sladkov describes similar trading on non-public information involving some of the abovementioned firms as well as others, including but not limited to: Grubhub, Patterson UTI-Energy, Ultra Clean Holdings, CNH Industrial NV, Getty Realty, Essendant, Tandem Diabetes Care, Kohl's, Box, IBM, and The Nielsen Company. They allegedly bought or sold shares of Snap, Cytornx Therapeutics, Horizon Therapeutics, Puma Biotechnology, Synaptics, Capstead Mortgage, SS&C Technologies, Roku, Avnet, and Tesla, among others. The defendants are said to have purchased the shares of companies reporting positive results and to have shorted the shares of those planning to report negative results. "Through this scheme, the defendants earned tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits." "Armed with these reports, which contained material non-public information, the defendants further conspired to enrich themselves by trading in the securities of those companies," the complaint says. The defendants allegedly used stolen employee credentials, associated with the networks of the two filing agent firms, to access financial disclosures from hundreds of publicly traded companies prior to publication. Here's 30 servers Russian intelligence uses to fling malware at the West, beams RiskIQįrom around January, 2018, through September, 2020, Klyushin, Ermakov, and Rumiantcev are said to have conspired with others to access the computer networks of two US companies authorized to file electronic documents with the SEC on behalf of corporate clients.Never mind Russia: Turkey and Vietnam are Microsoft's new state-backed hacker threats du jour.Computer and data scientists should be as highly regarded as 'warriors' says top UK cybergeneral.Russia-based criminals are still the UK's number 1 cyber-foe, NSO Group's wares a 'red flag' says NCSC chief.
The firm is also said to have offered investment management in exchange for 60 per cent of investors' profit – not a particularly appealing rate unless extraordinary profits were assured. M-13, according to the US government's complaint, provided IT and media monitoring services, cyber security consulting, and penetration testing, and claimed prominent Russian government officials and agencies as clients. The feds accuse him of conspiring to access computers without authorization and to commit wire and securities fraud, and with obtaining unauthorized access to computers and then committing wire and securities fraud.Įrmakov, also spelled "Yermakov," is one of seven alleged GRU agents charged by the Justice Department in October, 2018, with computer hacking, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering related to the 2016 US election and to disinformation operations that targeted sports and anti-doping organizations. On Monday, the Department of Justice unsealed charges against Klyushin in advance of his expected appearance in court. The Swiss rejected Russia's request for being incompatible with its laws and eventually accepted the American request. The following month, Russia asked that he be sent home and, almost two weeks later, the US asked that he be sent to America for trial. Klyushin, 41, a resident of Moscow, Russia, was arrested in Sion, Switzerland on March 21, 2021, reportedly upon disembarking from his private jet while on vacation with his family.
The US Attorney's Office of Massachusetts on Monday announced the extradition of Vladislav Klyushin, a Russian business executive with ties to the Kremlin, on charges of hacking US computer networks and committing securities fraud by trading on undisclosed financial data.
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