FSB officers detain a member of the organized criminal community REvil (video screenshot)MOSCOW, Jan 15The investigation asks to arrest three more members of the REvil hacker group, which gained fame in the West after accusations of a large-scale cyber attack on American companies, Ksenia Rozina, press secretary of the Tverskoy Court of Moscow, told RIA Novosti. , Golovachuk M.A. and Zayets A.N. preventive measures in the form of detention,» she said. The day before, the court sent two of their alleged accomplices Andrei Bessonov and Roman Muromsky under arrest. All of them are charged with part 2 of article 187 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ( Illegal circulation of means of payment). 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 means of payment. The intelligence service said that hackers developed malicious software, organized the theft of money from bank accounts of foreigners and cashed them out, including by purchasing expensive goods on the Internet. «/>The United States called for the trial of REvil hackers arrested in Russia. its decryption». 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 -class.Earlier, the United States charged Ukrainian Yaroslav Vasinsky and Russian Evgeny Polyanin with cyber fraud charges, and also added them to 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.In the United States, they commented on the detention of REvil hackers in Russia Last summer, a large IT company Kaseya from the United States 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 hold consultations with Moscow on the topic of cyber attacks with ransomware viruses. reported that all known sites associated with the REvil hacker group turned out to be unavailable without explanation. Then, in the fall, the US authorities charged Russian Yevgeny Polyanin and Ukrainian Yaroslav Vasinsky with extortion of millions of dollars, whom the US considers to be participants in REvil. In addition, the States announced a reward of up to 10 million dollars for information about the organizers of REvil.