Evil Corp
Aliases: GOLD DRAKE
- First seen
- 2015-06-01 00:00:00
- Primary motivation
- financial-gain
- Sophistication
- advanced
- Resource level
- organization
- Actor type
- criminal
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 11:59:32
Targeted industries: financial-services retail-and-hospitality professional-services
Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:gb country_code:de
Context
Evil Corp is an internaltional cybercrime network. In December of 2019 the US Federal Government offered a $5M bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Maksim V. Yakubets for allegedly orchestrating Evil Corp operations. Responsible for stealing over $100M from businesses and consumers. The Evil Corp organization is known for utilizing custom strains of malware such as JabberZeus, Bugat and Dridex to steal banking credentials.
Reports & references
- krebsonsecurity.com — Inside Evil Corp A 100M Cybercrime Menace (report)
- Wikipedia — Maksim Yakubets (report)
- bbc.com — World Us Canada 53195749 (report)
- secureworks.com — Gold Drake (report)
- secureworks.com — Dridex Bugat V5 Botnet Takeover Operation (report)