Security News > 2021 > June > Clop ransomware suspects busted in Ukraine, money and motors seized
You don't need to be fluent in Ukrainian to understand the shouted command: "Open up, Police!".
At which point the door opens outwards, slowly and tentatively, and the raid is ON! According to the Ukrainian police, law enforcement officers conducted 21 searches in the capital and Kyiv region.
The video shows piles of cash being counted, bagged, logged and seized by police offices, along with laptops and desktops, dozens of mobile phones and several flash motors.
We didn't know whether to expect to see a lot of cash, given that ransomware crooks take payment in cryptocurrency; nevertheless, the total seized was said by the police to be UAH5,000,000, which comes out at about $200,000.
Law enforcement officers from the South Korean police can be seen in the raid, acting in what looked like the capacity of observers, presumably because four Korean companies were listed by the Ukranian police as victims in this case.
US law enforcement was also involved, with the Ukrainian report confirming that "[in] 2021, the defendants attacked and encrypted the personal data of employees and financial reports of Stanford University Medical School, the University of Maryland and the University of California.