This was to be the last legal step in preparing his redemption, after turbulent cybercriminal adventures that began at the end of his adolescence. This epilogue is now compromised by a flight to Abkhazia, a separatist region of Georgia under Russian supervision. Stung by the absence of Agustín Inzirillo, on Thursday, September 5, the magistrates of the 13thmy The Criminal Court sentenced this 26-year-old self-taught computer scientist to a three-year prison sentence, half of which was suspended, accompanied by an arrest warrant.
This how much is going on “far beyond the demands of the prosecution” – three years suspended prison – agrees the president of the court, Guillaume Daïeff. But the judges consider that the escape of the accused in Abkhazia, untraceable for months, is a ” leak “. “This proximity to Russia”a country notoriously lax with cybercriminals, “it’s quite intriguing”Deputy District Attorney Audrey Gerbaud commented earlier. “This draws attention to a possible recurrence”She believes. However, in a letter read at the beginning of the hearing, Agustín Inzirillo expressed his firm desire to be present at the trial. But he argued that he could not go to Georgia to fly there due to a visa problem. “When I am free to travel, I will be happy to introduce myself to you.”he concluded.
Augustin Inzirillo was prosecuted for having developed a malicious program seven years earlier: TinyNuke. This banking malware was distributed from March to September 2018 via phishing campaigns. The inadvertent opening of the link contained in the emails received by the victims led to the download of the software, designed to recover sensitive information, such as username and password pairs, but also to automatically initiate transfers in case of connection to banking sites.
According to Agustín Inzirillo, this programme was run by a gang of Algerian hackers. The young man claims to have been put in contact with them by Hamza Bendelladj, a cybercrime figure who was then detained in the United States. The investigation uncovered around thirty fraudulent bank transfers, eleven of which were successful and resulted in the transfer of around 100,000 euros from the accounts of seven victims. Agustín Inzirillo is said to have received around 10,000 euros per month.
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“He is a young man who burned his wings.argues his lawyer, Robin Binsard. He was driven by a kind of recognition, he wanted to be discovered, but once connected, his creature, his program, overtook him. At the time, the young man born in California was truly adrift. He arrived in France at the age of 12 and dropped out of high school a few years later due to an explosive cocktail: excessive video games and malicious programming.
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