Statue of Themis. Archival photoMOSCOW, January 15The Tverskoy Court of Moscow has placed under arrest eight members of the REvil hacker group, which gained notoriety in the West after accusations of a large-scale cyber attack on American companies, court spokeswoman Ksenia Rozina told RIA Novosti. Earlier, the court arrested seven alleged accomplices — Andrei Bessonov, Roman Muromsky, Mikhail Golovochuk, Ruslan Khansvyarov, Dmitry Korotaev, Alexei Malozemov and Artem Zayets. The last court sent Alexei Puzyrevsky to the pre-trial detention center. The terms of arrest are set for two months — until March 13 or 14, depending on the time of detention of the defendants.The United States urged to judge the hackers from REvil arrested in Russia «The court granted the investigation's request for the election of a measure of restraint in the form of detention against Alexei Puzyrevsky,» she said. they are in the status of suspects. Previously, the FSB reported searches at 14 members of the criminal community, but so far only 8 petitions for arrests have been submitted to the court. payments. The intelligence service said that the hackers had developed malicious software, organized the theft of money from the bank accounts of foreigners and cashed them out, including by purchasing expensive goods on the Internet. his involvement in encroachments on the information resources of foreign high-tech companies by introducing malicious software, encrypting information and extorting money for its decryption. According to the report, during searches at 25 addresses, more than 426 million including in cryptocurrency», 600 thousand dollars, 500 thousand euros, as well as computer equipment, crypto wallets and 20 premium cars. Moscow arrested the seventh hacker from REvil
