U.S. Charged Eight in $45 Million Cyber Crime Scheme

The United States Department of Justice charged eight people on Wednesday in connection with a racketeering (RICO) conspiracy. 

Following a multimillion-dollar fraud that took place, threat actors stole money from hacked accounts at banks and financial institutions, laundered it, and sent it overseas. 

The defendants, Dickenson Elan, Andi Jacques, Jenkins, Louis Noel Michel, Monika Shauntel Jeff Jordan Propht-Francisque, Vladimyr Cherelus, Michael Jean Poix, and Louisaint Jolteus, allegedly worked together to perform computer fraud and scams. 

According to the Department of Justice, the campaign was started in 2011 when threat actors began to gain access to accounts at 15 big financial institutions including Citibank, E-Trade, PayPal and TD Ameritrade, JP Morgan Chase, payroll processor Automated Data Processing (ADP), and niche organizations including the U.S. military’s Defense Finance and Accounting Service. 

As per the data, the defendants along with others from 2015 and 2019, including a now-deceased conspirator referred to as Rich4Ever4430, banded together in a cybercrime and fraud scheme involving tax returns. 

The indictment claims, Jenkins, Michel, Propht-Francisque, Cherelus, and Rich4Ever4430, purchased on the dark w

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