Mark Sokolovsky, 26, a Ukrainian national, is being held in the Netherlands while he awaits extradition to America on cybercrime charges, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday. Sokolovsky, said to have used the online names Photix, Raccoon Stealer, and black21jack77777, was indicted on November 2, 2021 by a federal grand jury for his alleged role in the creation of Raccoon – a strain of malware that steals data from the Windows machines it infects – and for renting it as a service to others interested in information theft.

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