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Malone Lam pleads guilty to RICO charges for $245M crypto theft gang formed via Minecraft
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Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean and Miami resident who led a 12-member cybercrime gang that reportedly formed through Minecraft meetups, has pleaded guilty to racketeering charges and faces up to 20 years in prison for stealing and laundering hundreds of millions in cryptocurrency.
The case illustrates how social engineering operations targeting high-net-worth cryptocurrency holders can extract enormous sums from single victims, with attackers using technology to trigger account access alerts on target devices. The gang's fallback to physical burglaries when digital attacks failed demonstrates how determined threat actors blend cyber and physical intrusion methods.
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Malone Lam pleaded guilty to RICO violations for leading a gang that stole up to $245 million from a single victim through social engineering and technology-aided account access.
The 12-member gang reportedly formed after members met through Minecraft online, then operated for approximately two years targeting high-net-worth cryptocurrency holders.
Member Marlon Ferro received a 6.5-year sentence for conducting physical burglaries when social engineering attacks alone proved insufficient.
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