Security News > 2021 > June > Cuffed: Ukraine police collar six Clop ransomware gang suspects in joint raids with South Korean cops

Ukrainian police have arrested six people, alleged to be members of the notorious Clop* ransomware gang, seizing cash, cars - and a number of Apple Mac laptops and desktops.

The six suspects were arrested in joint raids carried out with South Korean law enforcement authorities earlier today, cops in Ukraine said.

Back in December, Clop had targeted a South Korean retailer, E-Land, reportedly stealing two million credit card details over a 12-month period.

Cops in South Korea apparently identified the Clop suspects soon after.

"Using remote access, the suspects activated malicious software 'Cobalt Strike', which provided information about the vulnerabilities of infected servers for further capture," continued the police statement, adding that the Clop gang had been seen deploying the Flawedammyy remote-access trojan after securing access to the victim's network.

Its steal-leak-ransom methodology was infamous; Trend Micro recently noted that out of the most notorious ransomware gangs, Clop led the way, with 5TB of stolen data published online in various places.

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