One of eight people indict­ed in Novemb­er for creati­ng fake advert­ising scheme­s throug­h remote data centre­sMOSCOW: Bulgaria has extradited a Russian indicted by a US court for mounting a complex hacking scheme to the United States, the Russian embassy in Washington said on Saturday. The Russian embassy, in a statement on its VK social network, said Alexander Zhukov had been extradited on January 18 and was being held in a jail in Brooklyn, New York. “Employees of the Consulate General in New York will visit him in jail soon,” the embassy said. Bulgaria detains suspect over murder of journalistZhukov is one of eight people, most of them Russian, indicted in November for creating fake advertising schemes through remote data centres and malware-infected computer networks. Germany to extradite suspect in Bulgarian journalist killing ‘soon’Zhukov, originally from Saint Petersburg, is known as Nastra in hacker circles, according to reports.

Source: The Express Tribune January 19, 2019 10:06 UTC