FBI Busted TrickBot's $400M Dev in a Riga Café — One Phone. 47 Hours. 2,184 Victims.

A $10M FBI reward sat unclaimed for 14 months — until a TrickBot developer powered on a 2022 phone inside a Riga café and collapsed a two-year cold investigation. FBI Cyber analysts had spent 14 months building a correlation database on the man known as Bentley, senior developer of TrickBot's loader and a key architect of Conti's $2.3B ransomware infrastructure. He was believed untouchable inside Russia. Then a single IMEI ping on a Skanstes Street cell tower changed everything. A 47-hour stakeout. A sealed federal complaint signed in Brooklyn. And a Lenovo laptop with an unencrypted partition holding 2,184 victim payment logs, $62.4M in wallet seeds, and a handwritten notebook listing seven Conti affiliates by real name. This is Case 23-CR-847, Eastern District of New York — reconstructed. #TrickBot #ContiRansomware #FBICyber #CyberCrime #bitcoin Subscribe for more federal investigations