The Tverskoy Court of Moscow has arrested all eight suspects in the case of the REvil hacker group, who sent viruses to extort money and were detained by the FSB after being contacted by the United States. This was reported on January 15 in the press service of the court.
“In total, eight people were arrested on Saturday, who had previously been brought to court to choose a measure of restraint,” the report says.
On December 14, the FSB stopped the activities of the REvil criminal community, whose members were engaged in stealing money using malicious software.
The basis for the search activities was the appeal of the competent authorities of the United States. It is noted that the FSB has established the full composition of the REvil criminal community and the involvement of its members in the illegal circulation of funds. According to the department, members of REvil developed malicious software, organized the theft of money from the bank accounts of foreign citizens and their cashing out.
More than 426 million rubles were seized at the addresses of the members of the criminal community, including in cryptocurrency, $600 thousand, €500 thousand, as well as crypto wallets and computer equipment.
Commenting on the FSB operation, Sergey Redhunt, an independent information security researcher and author of the Russian OSINT project, told Izvestia that the REvil hacker criminal community is unlikely to resume its activities.
Source: IZ
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