At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI.

What does it take to navigate the dark web, buy some Ransomware, and extort your victims? The writer tries it for himself.

Carbanak’s suspected ringleader is under arrest, but $1.2 billion remains missing, and his malware attacks live on.

In 2001, Maksym Igor Popov defected to work as an informant in the U.S. But a decade later, he was back to scamming the FBI.

Tracking cyberextortionists and their roving swarms of bots.

No, but for security software companies it’s a useful fiction.