Crazy Evil

THREAT ACTOR PROFILE

Crazy Evil

Crazy Evil is a Russian-speaking cybercrime gang that runs large-scale social-engineering scams against cryptocurrency users, influencers, gamers and DeFi communities. Organized as a "traffer" operation with specialized sub-teams, it pushes infostealers through fake apps and job lures to drain wallets and accounts.

Country:

Russia

Category:

Cryptocurrency / Finance

First seen

2021

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Names and aliases

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Malware and tooling

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NAMES AND ALIASES

The Crazy Evil traffer gang

Crazy Evil is tracked under its own name, with named sub-teams running specific lures. It is one entry among the cybercrime crews we track, and its social-engineering style overlaps with eCrime groups like Scattered Spider.

GROUP PROFILE

Traffer teams built for crypto theft

Crazy Evil is structured as a traffer operation: it redirects legitimate web and social traffic to malicious sites, with multiple sub-teams running tailored lures for different audiences. Its goal is direct theft of cryptocurrency, NFTs and other digital assets.

Our record places its origin as Russia and ties it to campaigns across cryptocurrency, finance and media. Reporting estimates profits in the millions, making it one of the more organized and persistent crypto-scam gangs.

The group's approach is pure social engineering at scale. It impersonates AI, gaming and Web3 startups, runs fake job interviews, and distributes macOS and Windows infostealers through convincing fake apps rather than exploiting software.

Facts:

Initial Access

Russian Federation · GRU

Initial Access

Russian Federation · GRU

Initial Access

Russian Federation · GRU

Initial Access

Russian Federation · GRU

Victims reported in our records and posts:

ATTACK LIFECYCLE

Fake apps and job lures into infostealers

The stages below come from Crazy Evil activity in posts we track on our IOC Hunter feed.

Initial Access

Spear-phishing remains the front door. In the 2026 campaign Hunt.io tracked as Operation Neusploit, APT28 sent convincing spear-phishing from already-compromised government accounts and abused a Microsoft Office security bypass (CVE-2026-21509) to kick off a fileless chain. A separate June 2026 cluster delivered the LameHug malware through spear-phishing ZIP archives using double-extension lures.

Initial Access

MALWARE AND TOOLING

AMOS, Sonoma and a stealer bench

Initial Access

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NOTABLE CAMPAIGNS

Sonoma, GrassCall and Meeten

Recent reporting tracks Crazy Evil's fake-app and fake-job scams.

PixyNetLoader tracking

A clustering of roughly 90 loader samples across four sub-families from 2024 to 2026, with steganography and cloud C2, also linking to related APT28 tooling such as SlimAgent and Graphite.

PixyNetLoader tracking

A clustering of roughly 90 loader samples across four sub-families from 2024 to 2026, with steganography and cloud C2, also linking to related APT28 tooling such as SlimAgent and Graphite.

PixyNetLoader tracking

A clustering of roughly 90 loader samples across four sub-families from 2024 to 2026, with steganography and cloud C2, also linking to related APT28 tooling such as SlimAgent and Graphite.

PixyNetLoader tracking

A clustering of roughly 90 loader samples across four sub-families from 2024 to 2026, with steganography and cloud C2, also linking to related APT28 tooling such as SlimAgent and Graphite.

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