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thewayneNormally the rule is that as long as you're based in Russia and you don't attack Russian and most Eastern European countries, that you're good. So what exactly happened here?
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said today that it has raided and shut down the operations of the REvil ransomware gang. Raids were conducted today at 25 residents owned by 14 members suspected to be part of the REvil team across Moscow, St. Petersburg, Leningrad, and the Lipetsk regions. Authorities said they seized more than 426 million rubles, $600,000, and 500,000 euro in cash, along with cryptocurrency wallets, computers, and 20 expensive cars. The REvil gang is responsible for ransomware attacks against Apple supplier Quanta, Kaseya, and JBS Foods.
Apparently American and other country's pressure on Russia produced some results, at last! If this were a movie, Jason Bourne (or equivalent) would be sneaking into Russian hacker farms and wiping them out with a silenced pistol, but we don't do things like that. It will be interesting to see how these prosecutions and prison sentences play out.
https://therecord.media/fsb-raids-revil-ransomware-gang-members/
https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/01/14/154259/fsb-arrests-14-members-of-revil-ransomware-gang
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said today that it has raided and shut down the operations of the REvil ransomware gang. Raids were conducted today at 25 residents owned by 14 members suspected to be part of the REvil team across Moscow, St. Petersburg, Leningrad, and the Lipetsk regions. Authorities said they seized more than 426 million rubles, $600,000, and 500,000 euro in cash, along with cryptocurrency wallets, computers, and 20 expensive cars. The REvil gang is responsible for ransomware attacks against Apple supplier Quanta, Kaseya, and JBS Foods.
Apparently American and other country's pressure on Russia produced some results, at last! If this were a movie, Jason Bourne (or equivalent) would be sneaking into Russian hacker farms and wiping them out with a silenced pistol, but we don't do things like that. It will be interesting to see how these prosecutions and prison sentences play out.
https://therecord.media/fsb-raids-revil-ransomware-gang-members/
https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/01/14/154259/fsb-arrests-14-members-of-revil-ransomware-gang
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Date: 2022-01-15 03:24 am (UTC)Petroleum giant Rosneft (6% of global production) would suffer if a disgruntled Saudi Arabian crown prince increased oil production out of spite.
Officially, 40.4% of Rosneft's declared profits go directly to the Russian government.
A very public and harsh takedown of a plausible scapegoat will make Saudi Arabia and Russia happy. Placating all the the other countries irritated by the scapegoat is a bonus.
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Date: 2022-01-15 03:32 am (UTC)Very interesting! I hadn't heard that MBS had gotten hacked, much as I love it! That explains a lot. Of course all phones are vulnerable, as are all computers that are online. Yeah, an action like this could mend a lot of fences.
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Date: 2022-01-15 03:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-15 05:00 am (UTC)That is an amazing story! I'm going to look a bit deeper into it.