The Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested two members of the REvil hacker group who sent out viruses to extort money and were detained by the FSB after an appeal from the United States. This was announced on January 15 by the press secretary of the court Ksenia Rozina.
“On January 15, 2022, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow chose a preventive measure in the form of detention against Ruslan Khansvyarov, who is suspected of committing a crime under Part 2 of Art. 187 (“Illegal circulation of means of payment”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, for a period of two months, that is, until March 13, 2022, ”she said.
Earlier on Saturday, the court also sent another member of the same group of hackers, Mikhail Golovachuk, into custody.
On Friday, January 14, the Tver court of the capital arrested two hackers of this group. They will remain under arrest until March 13.
On Friday, 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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