The owner and founder of Mobinet.io was the same owner of RSOCKS,
"This is a 35-year-old Russian who lives abroad and is also the head of the world's largest spam forum."
On June 16, the US, German, Dutch and British authorities dismantled the RSOCKS botnet. On June 22, KrebsOnSecurity experts revealed the identity of the botnet's owner. He is a 35-year-old Russian living abroad who also runs the world's largest spam forum, RUSdot Mailer.
According to the US Department of Justice, RSOCKS offered customers access to the IP addresses of many hacked IoT devices: “A cybercriminal could rent access to a proxy pool for a day, a week, or a month through from a web browser. The cost of accessing the RSOCKS pool of proxies ranged from $30 per day to access 2,000 proxies to $200 per day to access 90,000 proxies,” the US Department of Justice said in a statement.
He was a member of the Russian Verified forum with the nickname Stanx, later changing his name to RSOCKS. Prior to this, the Russian had been registered on the Antichat forums since 2005 and Exploit since 2013. In one of the first posts on Antichat in 2005, Stanx said that he was from Omsk.
Researchers from information security company Intel 471 found a cached version of the Vkontakte profile of Denis "Neo" Kloster from Omsk. Currently, Denis's Vkontakte profile is open and available for viewing.
According to experts from Constella Intelligence, the hacker's real name is Denis Emelyantsev. Denis also owns several domain names: proxy[.]info , allproxy[.]info , kloster.pro and deniskloster.com .
According to Deniskloster.com, the 35-year-old was born in Omsk, got his first computer at 12 and graduated from high school at 16. Kloster says he has worked for many large companies in Omsk as a system administrator. , Web developer. and photographer. According to Kloster, his first real job was running his own online advertising company in Omsk.
It is also known that for some time Denis lived in New York, having received an American visa in Bangkok. “Something new was needed, and I decided to leave Omsk and try to live in the United States. “I discovered the American visa, it was not difficult to get it. And so I moved to live in New York, the largest city in the world, in a country where all wishes come true. But even that wasn't enough for me, and since then I started traveling the world," Kloster wrote in 2013.
In 2016, Deniskloster.com published a post celebrating the site's three years of operation. The entry said that Kloster's anonymous business had grown to nearly 20 employees.
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All these applications to create proxies create hidden connections to sell bandwidth on your website RSOCKS, if you use some of these applications your bandwidth is being used by someone else and you are not aware of it. After the US Department of Justice found Denis' real identity, he eliminated all traces including Mobinet and his telegram account in which he used his real name but with a fictitious last name.
