Artem Zaets in the Tverskoy District Court of MoscowMOSCOW, January 15 the arrest of the seventh member of the REvil hacker group, which gained fame in the West after accusations of a large-scale cyber attack on American companies, court spokeswoman Ksenia Rozina told RIA Novosti. she said. 
The United States called for the trial of hackers from REvil arrested in Russia. Previously, the court sent six of his alleged accomplices Andrei Bessonov, Roman Muromsky, Mikhail Golovochuk, Ruslan Khansvyarov, Dmitry Korotaev and Alexei Malozemov to arrest. , while they are in the status of suspects. As previously reported by the FSB, the investigation established the full composition of the REvil criminal community and proved the involvement of its members in the illegal circulation of payment means. 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 fifth hacker from REvil
