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FSB Arrests 14 Members of REvil Ransomware Gang (therecord.media) 34

Posted by msmash from the moving-forward dept.
An anonymous reader writes: 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.
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FSB Arrests 14 Members of REvil Ransomware Gang

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  • Well then (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 14, 2022 @10:10AM (#62172481)
    Sounds like someone forgot to pay their protection money.

    • Re:Well then (Score:5, Interesting)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 ) on Friday January 14, 2022 @11:05AM (#62172787) Homepage Journal

      Or maybe they got fed up with ransomware gangs forcing Western companies to improve security, making it harder for FSB hackers to get in. If it the ransomware epidemic has taught us anything, it's that our businesses must have been leaking live a sieve for decades and we can assume that multiple foreign intelligence agencies plundered them regularly.

      • Or maybe Biden made some deal with Putin after all ...

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by theshowmecanuck ( 703852 )

      First thing I thought: Putin didn't get his cut.

      • That was my first line of thought, too. (But why the vacuous Subject?)

        However, my second thought was different. Maybe it's just a recruitment scam from the government side? Especially if Putin thought some of them were thinking about defecting to the other side?

        I think it would be hilarious if the trigger for the arrests was that one or more of them tried to find out about reward money for informing on the gang. Perhaps even funnier if the new convicts' prison labor is hacking for Putin?

      • Putin got his: 14 new pentest and/or balcony integrity testers

    • Try to prove to the West that you are nice really and that you are justified in stealing more of the Ukraine's territory. After all you are playing nicely, so obviously Ukraine are the bad guys.

    • Or they were forcibly recruited into their official government hacker team going after NATO and Ukraine.

      • Re: (Score:2, Troll)

        by PPH ( 736903 )

        All is not lost, comrade. Although we have confiscated your fancy western sports cars, exemplary performance in service of the state will be rewarded with a glorious Russian Zil.

  • Sentence (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    The REvil gang has now been sentenced to public service attacking servers in Ukraine.

  • FTFA, links within links ...

    one [therecord.media]
    two [foxbusiness.com]

    Now let's talk reciprocation, comrade.

    • Assuming that REvil was operating with the implicit consent of the Russian government, it's a dangerous game for these kind of unofficial grey-zone actors to play. You never know when the Kremlin will decide to engage in strategic diplomacy or exercise a course correction. Perhaps that's all part of makes working in that space so exciting.
  • They what, arrest their own employees? Blessed are those who believe. It already sounds exactly like bees against honey. After all, the whole world already knows that all these hackers are in their service, and only a very stupid person can believe otherwise.
  • Cool acronym for a security service.

  • "I get invitation from casino. It say, go to house on Leninsky Avenue for poker game. Will be in house many of pretty girls, much vodka. Great time I have. Wake up in morning when police come. Head hurts and I am sad. Big man in next bunk says I should be his friend.

    In Russia game plays you.

  • FSB Brings on new talent, at lower-than-entry-level salaries!

  • Geez, what a bunch of non-nerd posters.

    Just maybe rEvil stepped over the line, and went after too-high profile companies, and Biden said "enough is enough", and Putin agreed.

    But I'm sure there will be idiots here who are all against this, given they tried to hit up The Former Guy for $42M.

  • Raids were conducted today at 25 residents owned by 14 members ...

    Even though Slashdot editor msmash, the Russian FSB, and apparently therecord.media are all non-native English speakers, it's pitiful that none of them know the difference between 'residents' and 'residences'.

    -1, Pedantic -- yes, but this kind of stupidity drags us all down as we tend to write like what we read.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by shanen ( 462549 )

      Maybe there's a FP race for posting stories among Slashdot editors? (Just joking. Seems pretty clear they work by time slots.)

    • ... and it's amazing that people were arrested both in St Petersburg and in Leningrad.
  • Probably waggled a finger at them for being sloppy and released them to somewhere else to pick up where they left off, minus their toys as a 'penalty'. Vlad doesn't want to lose such valuable members of his cyberwarfare division, after all.

  • YoU muSt dePOsiT 4,000 bItcoiN at the US District Court or We no reLease You bodY!

  • You know their talents won't be let waste in Russia unlike the US. They got all their toys taken and are now diligent "employees" of their "democratic" socialist party. Wonder how hard it would be to move to Russia and learn the culture and language...
  • I'm waiting to hear the FBI congratulate and thank the FSB for their outstanding work. However, history shows that I should expect them to somehow turn it around and defend the hackers, because that's what they do no matter what the law says and no matter how illogical their arguments.

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