Russian native and likely proprietor of the RSOCKS botnet was arrested in Bulgaria at the request of the US; he requested and was granted extradition to the US (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Sources: Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov, a Ukrainian accused of leading a cybercriminal group that raided SMBs with JabberZeus malware, is arrested in Switzerland  —  Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov, the accused 40-year-old Ukrainian leader of a prolific cybercriminal group that stole tens …

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Brian Krebs apologizes to IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti after posting now-removed articles on a “breach” based on a “sole source” currently under federal indictment  —  Last year, I posted a series of articles about a purported “breach” at Ubiquiti.

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Financial cybercrime group the Disneyland Team is spoofing bank domains using Punycode, a standard that lets browsers render domains with non-Latin alphabets  —  A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains …

Jasper Ward / Reuters:
Source: Sam Bankman-Fried plans to reverse his decision to contest extradition to the US; legal experts say any trial is likely more than a year away  —  Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to appear in court in the Bahamas on Monday to reverse his decision to contest extradition …

Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block:
Faruk Fatih Özer, CEO of defunct Turkish crypto exchange Thodex who is accused of a rug pull, was arrested in Albania; Thodex’s losses may be as high as $2.52B  —  – Faruk Fatih Özer, the former Thodex CEO who is accused of rug pull, was arrested in Albania and is facing extradition to Turkey.

CNBC:
Bahamas AG Ryan Pinder and US SDNY Attorney Damian Williams confirm Bahamas police arrested Sam Bankman-Fried, who is under indictment and could be extradited  —  – The cofounder and former CEO of bankrupt crypto trading firm FTX was arrested in the Bahamas after the U.S. attorney …