The middle-aged men allegedly targeted accounting staff at victim companies and impersonated CEOs and lawyers to trick victims into sending large wire transfers.

Ryan Roach and his alleged co-conspirator, Mathiew Stubbings, are accused of compromising U.S. universities’ computers and taking over processing power to mine for cryptocurrency.

Robin Patrick Martin was charged with conveying false or misleading information and hoaxes and mailing threatening communications in an effort to intimidate election officials.

The Russian-speaking cybercrime storefront was among the most active bulletproof hosting providers this year to date, receiving almost one-fifth of all illicit-attributed inflow tracked by researchers.

The scammers affected approximately 800 victims and led to losses of more than half a million dollars, the Justice Department said.

Artem Stryzhak participated in a series of ransomware attacks on hospitals, government entities and law firms from the middle of 2018 to late 2021.

Officials disrupted the cybercrime marketplace in April and arrested the alleged 20-year-old operator at that time. Illicit sales reportedly exceeded $500,000 since 2023.

Operation Lonestar Roundup uncovered an operation that used stolen identities to secretly funnel $3 million from 70 U.S. employers back to Pyongyang.

Participants said it was the largest joint scam operation to date and the first focused on the region.

Details of the case align with the investigation into ShinyHunters’ attack on FBI IT systems.