The U.S. offers $10 million in rewards for tips on states connecting redline cybercriminals
How do you want to make millions of dollars?
Well, this may be possible – if you have information that can help reveal the identities of cybercriminals associated with the infamous Redline information theft malware.
The U.S. State Department will provide up to $10 million in information for information about government-backed hackers considered Redline malware attacks that include critical infrastructure between our targets.
Redline is one of the world’s most prolific information stealers in recent years, stripping away a wide variety of information, including account details and passwords saved by browsers, cookies and credit card details, as well as information about the computers it has infected.
The hacking tool has been sold as a subscription and sold to cybercriminals and was sold on the Dark Network in March 2020 as malware.
The United States is particularly interested in collecting information about the Russian Rossian country, Rudline Maxandrovich Rudometov, who they suspect is the developer and administrator of the Redline malware operations.
In October 2024, the U.S. unsealed allegations against Rudometov by law enforcement as part of Operation Magnus – international efforts by law enforcement have undermined the Redline and Meta InfoStealers networks.
Although the red line is often seen in low-level cybercrime operations, suspicion of U.S. officials is that certain attacks may be required or coordinated by foreign intelligence services.
Of course, the $10 million reward may be enough to help some online scammers reconsider their allegiance and share information with computer crime authorities.
With this in mind, the U.S. government has created a way for those with information about malicious activities to reach out anonymously and to securely share information about hackers working in the direction of foreign governments.
To leave a tip, you can point the TOR browser to:
http://he5dybnt7sr6cm32xt77pazmtm65flqy6irivtflruqfc5ep7eiodiadiad.onion/
Prompts can also be submitted to U.S. authorities via signal encrypted messaging applications.
Those who don’t care much about their anonymity can learn more about the rewards of Justice Websites (accessible via regular web browsers).
The Justice Reward says that it reads every prompt it receives and can send messages in multiple languages.
Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this guest author’s article are only the opinions of the contributor and do not necessarily reflect Ford’s opinions.
