Russia arrests the Revil Ransomware Group on a US request and arrested 14 members-
Russia arrests the Revil Ransomware Group on a US request and arrested 14 members-
Russian law enforcement authorities have smashed the notorious hacking group Revil, which is believed to be behind ransomware attacks in the USA with cryptocurrency. Although it is unlikely that Moscow will deliver Russian citizens to Washington, the operation was carried out between the two powers at the request of the United States despite increased geopolitical tensions.
Russia's FSB meets cybercrime Group Revil
On Friday, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) announced that he carried out raids against Revil in the capital Moscow, St. Petersburg, Leningrad and Lipezz together with the Department of Department of the Interior Ministry (MVD). . Police officers searched 25 addresses and arrested 14 alleged members of the organized crime group.
funds worth over 426 million rubles (5.6 million US dollars), including cryptocurrency, $ 600,000 and $ 500,000, as well as crypto money exchanges, computer equipment that was used to inspect crimes, and 20 high-end vehicles that were bought with funds that come from criminal activities were confiscated. Press release in which it is emphasized:
As a result of the joint actions of the FSB and the MVD, the organized criminal community stopped existing, the information infrastructure used for criminal purposes was neutralized.
FSB added that the arrested people developed malignant software and organized the theft of funds from foreign bank accounts. Russian officials claim to have “the complete composition” of Revil and the participation of its members in the “illegal circulation of payment and documented illegal activities”.
USA welcome Russian actions against hacker
Russia's most important law enforcement agency also said that the operation was carried out at the request of the respective US authorities who passed on information about Revils alleged leaders and his participation in attacks on foreign high-tech companies through malicious software, encrypted with the data for this.
The Russian news agency Interfax reported that the TWerskoi dish in Moscow kept two Russians in custody by March 13-Roman Muromsky, a 33-year-old entrepreneur and web developer without penalty, and Andrei Bessonov, alleged Revil hacker. They were charged with part 2 of art. 187 - "Illegal circulation of means of payment" - of the Russian Criminal Code. The MVD applied for similar measures to the court against three further detained.
Revil was blamed for his awareness crypto-ransomware hits in the United States, including the one on the colonial pipeline led on the American east coast. The perpetrators used the encryption software "Darkside", from which it is assumed that it was developed by the group. Another case was the attack on the world's largest meat packer JBS, as Reuters reported in June
In his Announcement stated that Russia about the results of the results Operation has informed. The United States welcomed the arrests, with Reuters quoting a high -ranking civil servant with the words: "We understand that one of the people who was arrested today was responsible for the attack on the colonial pipeline last spring." Interfax said that Russia would not deliver Revil members with Russian citizenship to the USA
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