The Russian government has announced the arrest of multiple members of the REvil group, the ransomware gang behind multiple large-scale attacks on US targets. It was also said that the culprits were caught at the behest of the United States.
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Russia’s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), said in a press release Friday that it has recently deployed to Moscow, Leningrad, Lipetsk and St. He said he raided 25 homes in St. Petersburg, where 14 members of the cybercrime gang were arrested.
In addition, in addition to the members of the organization seized during the raids, the authorities announced that they seized 20 luxury vehicles and a large amount of computer equipment, as well as 426 million rubles, 600 thousand dollars and 500 thousand euros. Also, the identities of the hackers have not yet been revealed.
The video, recorded by the FSB, shows officers chasing and handcuffing various individuals while simultaneously placing the apartments under intense scrutiny. The Russian government also said that it caught the criminals at the behest of the United States, and said in its statement:
The search activities are based on an appeal from US authorities, who reported that the leader of the criminal community and his involvement in the intrusion of foreign high-tech companies’ information resources by injecting malware, encrypting information, and extorting money to decrypt it.
REvil has been high on the US wanted list since it carried out the massive Kaseya ransomware attack last summer. The attack was used to infect more than 1,500 different companies worldwide (including many in the US) using malware updates on the tech firm’s popular IT products.
Additionally, the gang was allegedly involved in attacks against hardware maker Acer, renowned law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks (which were said to have leaked Lady Gaga’s 2.4 gigabyte legal documents), and Quanta, a leading computer parts supplier working for Apple. is being done.
And last May, a devastating ransomware attack on meat processing giant JBS Foods forced the company to temporarily shut down a number of food production facilities. In other words, the damage caused by REvil does not end with counting.
US officials have been calling on Russia for a while to crack down on cybercrime gangs operating within the country’s borders. A series of talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden last year showed that the two leaders agreed that more must be done to stop ransomware attacks.
The United States and Russia are currently experiencing serious tensions over the political situation in Ukraine, where some US commentators claim that Russia is preparing for a military invasion. As such, it seems reasonable to some that Russia may have arrested REvil as a sort of bargaining ploy with the United States.
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