FSB Arrests 14 Members of REvil Ransomware Gang (therecord.media) 34
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.
Well then (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Well then (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
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Or maybe Biden made some deal with Putin after all ...
Re: Well then (Score:1)
if Western hacking operations are targeted against him wholesale and, say, expose Wikileaks style evidence of him and his cronies corruption and expose it to the Russian people then there's not an unreasonable chance he'll end up like the Tsar in 1917
The Russian people wouldn't do shit. They have enough dirt on them as it is, and they don't care. A coup is the most likely thing to happen.
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First thing I thought: Putin didn't get his cut.
What's worse than a criminal bribe? (Score:2)
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?
Re: Well then (Score:2)
Indeed - and then there's Ukraine (Score:2)
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.
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Or they were forcibly recruited into their official government hacker team going after NATO and Ukraine.
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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)
The REvil gang has now been sentenced to public service attacking servers in Ukraine.
Eh.. sacrificial lambs... (Score:2)
FTFA, links within links ...
one [therecord.media]
two [foxbusiness.com]
Now let's talk reciprocation, comrade.
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Or when Uncle Vlad's Keptocracy decides to raid your cash stash.
FSB against hackers? (Score:1)
Front Side Bus (Score:2)
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Cool acronym for a security service.
Or a Rosa Parks [wikipedia.org] cover band. :-)
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Accused hacker interviewed (Score:2)
"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.... (Score:2)
FSB Brings on new talent, at lower-than-entry-level salaries!
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Meshes with my second thought (per my earlier comment on the story).
Or just maybe... (Score:2)
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.
Need an editor (Score:2)
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.
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Maybe there's a FP race for posting stories among Slashdot editors? (Just joking. Seems pretty clear they work by time slots.)
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Russian security theatre (Score:2)
Counter ransom (Score:2)
YoU muSt dePOsiT 4,000 bItcoiN at the US District Court or We no reLease You bodY!
Better title: 14 Members REvil get new jobs at KGB (Score:2)
I'm waiting... (Score:1)