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US Recovers $15 Million From Ad Fraud Group

SecurityWeek, May 19, 2022. That three and a half years after the 2018 action the 3ve scheme is still described as dismantled, with Ovsyannikov and Timchenko arrested, extradited, pleaded guilty and sentenced and Isaev still at large - i.e. no successor operation attributed to the group..

Source type
News report
Published
May 19, 2022
Research grade
S2
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Publisher
SecurityWeek
Published
May 19, 2022
Source type
News report
Research grade
Source grade S2
Language
English
Official record
Not an official publication
Address
https://www.securityweek.com/us-recovers-15-million-ad-fraud-group/
What it supports
That three and a half years after the 2018 action the 3ve scheme is still described as dismantled, with Ovsyannikov and Timchenko arrested, extradited, pleaded guilty and sentenced and Isaev still at large - i.e. no successor operation attributed to the group.
Dataset id
src_securityweek_3ve_recovery_2022

Research notes

  • By Ionut Arghire. article:published_time 2022-05-19T10:36:57+00:00.
  • The piece describes 3ve as consisting of three sub-operations including the Kovter botnet; it names Aleksandr Isaev (Russia), Sergey Ovsyannikov and Yevgeniy Timchenko (Kazakhstan).
  • It is negative evidence for a resurgence claim - absence of reported successor activity, not an affirmative statement that none exists.

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