US Charges Ukrainian, Russian, Over Cyberattack, Seizes $6 Million in Ransom Payments (reuters.com) 13
The U.S. Justice Department has charged a suspect from Ukraine and a Russian national over a July ransomware attack on an American company, according to indictments made in court filings on Monday, and has seized $6 million in ransom payments. From a report: The latest U.S. actions follow a slew of measures taken to combat ransomware that earlier this year hit big companies, including Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the United States, and crippled fuel delivery for several days in the U.S. Southeast. Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a Ukrainian national arrested in Poland last month, will face U.S. charges for deploying ransomware known as REvil, which has been used in hacks that have cost U.S. firms millions of dollars, the court filing showed. REvil gained notoriety as the Russian group behind the ransomware attack against meatpacker JBS SA.
That's it. (Score:2)
Game Over
Re: That's it. (Score:3)
Re: That's it. (Score:4, Interesting)
The article is entirely clear, but the US secret service, in conjunction with other countries, hacked the hackers. They had the private key for the bitcoin account [krebsonsecurity.com].
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DarkSide says it targets only big companies, and forbids affiliates from dropping ransomware on organizations in several industries, including healthcare, funeral services, education, public sector and non-profits.
In other words, they absurdly claimed to be a socially-conscious cyberattacker.
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The only way it could be better is if they dropped half their profits into healthcare, education, and non-profits. Deduct operating costs and that's about it.
Golden Bite (Score:3)
https://vk.com/index.phpp?z=ph... [vk.com]
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Sure, we have friendly community up here.
The site is one of analogue to the FB, but made in russia (lowercase, because fuck you putin while we can, while your (not your, putin, fuck off) arts are therefore great).
Then, the person profile is that of one very fragile, probably sensitive male.
Involved into national origins and location preferences of at least three countries mentioned.
Being shown with his trophies of several local (Ukraine regional) IT-savviness competitions.
Right here comes grotesque of him o
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Yet another conspiracy theorist lacking a firm grasp on reality. https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyb... [fbi.gov]
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Since you don't identify the "real criminals" or say why you think "This is all a staged puppet-show.", I have to consider your claims "probably invalid".
OTOH, I've got to admit that with claims that vague, I can't even tell whether I disagree with them.