The US Department of Justice has indicted a hacker known as ‘Fxmsp’ for hacking into and selling access to over three hundred organizations worldwide. The indictment and DOJ press release does not state if Andrey Turchin was arrested, BleepingComputer has been told by sources familiar with the case that local authorities in Kazakhstan detained him in the case. According to the indictment, he would gain access to private networks through phishing attacks and brute-forcing the passwords of exposed remote desktop servers.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/doj-indict-fxmsp-hacker-for-selling-access-to-hacked-orgs-av-firms/