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Lamborghini Carjackers Lured by $243M Cyberheist
- The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August were carjacked a week later.
- Authorities say the couple was beaten and briefly kidnapped by six young men who traveled from Florida as part of a botched plan to hold the parents for ransom.
- The couple was targeted because the co-conspirators believed the victims’ son had access to significant amounts of digital currency.
- Approximately one week earlier, on Aug. 19, a group of cybercriminals that allegedly included the couple’s son executed a sophisticated phone-based social engineering attack in which they stole $243 million worth of cryptocurrency from a victim in Washington, D.C.
- Prosecutors allege Malone “Greavys” Lam, 20, of Miami and Los Angeles, and Jeandiel “Box” Serrano, 21, of Los Angeles conspired to steal and launder over $230 million in cryptocurrency from a victim in Washington, D.C.
- By tracing the flow of funds stolen in the heist, ZachXBT concluded that Wiz received a large percentage from the theft
- It appears that all of the suspects in the cyber heist (and at least some of the alleged carjackers) are members of The Com.
- Cybercriminals hail from all walks of life and income levels
- There is also a penchant among this crowd to call attention to their activities in conspicuous ways that hasten their arrest and criminal charging.
- As the mobile carriers seek to make their networks less hospitable to SIM-swappers, and as more financial platforms seek to harden user account security, today’s crypto thieves are finding they don’t need SIM-swaps to steal obscene amounts of cryptocurrency.
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