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MOSCOW, Jan 14The Tverskoy Court of Moscow has arrested the second member of the REvil hacker group, which became famous in the West after accusations of a large-scale cyber attack on American companies, Ksenia Rozina, press secretary of the court, told RIA Novosti. into custody,” she said. turnover of means of payment. The intelligence service said that the hackers 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. «/>In Russia, the activities of the REvil hacker group were stopped. «According to the report, during searches at 25 addresses, more than 426 million rubles were seized from 14 members of the criminal community,» including in cryptocurrency «, 600 thousand dollars, 500 thousand euros, as well as computer equipment, crypto wallets and 20 premium cars .Earlier, the United States charged Ukrainian Yaroslav Vasinsky and Russian Evgeny Polyanin with cyber fraud charges, and also included them in the sanctions list. Vasinsky was arrested in Poland, at the end of December the court of the Polish city of Lublin approved his extradition to the United States. Polyanin is at large — according to the FBI, in Barnaul. It is assumed that both belonged to the REvil group, which managed to collect up to $ 200 million in ransom from the victims. Specifically, Polyanin got $13 million, more than $6 million of which was confiscated by the authorities, US Attorney General Merrick Garland said.US intelligence agencies issued recommendations on countering hackers from Russia Last summer, a large US IT company Kaseya was subjected to a massive cyber attack using a ransomware virus, along with dozens or even hundreds of other businesses. It was then claimed that it was the REvil hacker group that was suspected of hacking. The hackers, in particular, demanded a record $ 70 million for the publication of a universal decryptor that would unlock all computers locked during the Kaseya incident. According to cybersecurity company Huntress, cyber attacks affected more than a thousand companies, and Kaseya subsequently estimated the number of affected businesses around the world at 1.5 thousand. US President Joe Biden said that he was “not sure” that Russia was behind the recent cyber attack, but the White House reported that Washington was in in any case, will consult with Moscow on the topic of cyber attacks with ransomware viruses. Subsequently, the media, citing cybersecurity experts, reported that all known sites associated with the REvil hacker group were inaccessible without explanation. Then, in the fall, the US authorities charged Russian Evgeny Polyanin and Ukrainian Yaroslav Vasinsky with extortion of millions of dollars, whom the United States considers participants in REvil. In addition, the States announced a reward of up to 10 million dollars for information about the organizers of REvil.
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