The Russian government says it has dismantled and detained criminal ransomware group REvil, which extorted Apple and launched high-profile ransomware campaigns, at the request of the United States. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it and the Internal Affairs Ministry carried out a special operation to take down REvil, which was responsible for a number of high-profile ransomware attacks in 2020 and 2021.In a press release Friday, the FSB said that the “organized criminal community has ceased to exist,” and “the information infrastructure used for criminal purposes was neutralized.” Read more…
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