The Tverskoy Court of Moscow has arrested a hacker from the REvil group for two months, who is suspected of spreading ransomware viruses. This was reported on January 14 in the press service of the court.
“On January 14, 2022, the Tverskoy District Court of the City of Moscow chose a preventive measure in the form of detention against R.G. Muromsky,” the capital’s courts of general jurisdiction said in a statement.
The defendant will remain under arrest until March 13. He is charged with Part 2 of Art. 187 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Illegal turnover of means of payment”).
Earlier that day, 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.
In November, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that Russian Evgeny Polyanin, who is wanted in the United States on suspicion of cybercrime, is believed to be in Barnaul.
It was noted that 22-year-old Ukrainian Yaroslav Vasinsky and 28-year-old Russian Yevgeny Polyanin were charged with using Sodinokibi and REvil ransomware to attack businesses and government agencies in the United States, including the July 2021 attack on Kaseya.
Source: IZ
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