Security News > 2020 > August > GandCrab ransomware hacker arrested in Belarus

Law enforcement in Belarus has announced the arrest of a 31-year-old man who is alleged to have extorted more than 1000 victims with the infamous GandCrab ransomware in 2017 and 2018.

Used GandCrab malware variants to conduct ransomware attacks.

In other words, the suspect arrested in Belarus - assuming that he did commit this crime, of course - wouldn't have created the GandCrab malware himself, or even collected the cryptocurrency payments from his victims.

The smart money was that they folded the GandCrab service simply to start up again in new clothes, because the same crooks are alleged to be behind the Revil ransomware that you will have heard about many times in Series 2 of the Naked Security Podcast.

The arrest of an alleged GandCrab ransomware disseminator is therefore not quite as dramatic as the arrest of the crooks who are supposed to have run the cloud service at the heart of it all.

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