Security News > 2022 > January > REvil ransomware crew allegedly busted in Russia, says FSB
The Russian FSB has identified the entire criminal enterprise known as "REvil".
Police raids on 25 addresses in at least Moscow, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Leningrad and Lipetsk.
The FSB report explicitly mentions that the investigation and the raid were initiated by a request received from US law enforcement, which had apparently identified the REvil ringleader and provided evidence of the gang's involvement in criminal extortion against US victims.
We hope that's true, and that the core of the REvil ransomware-as-a-service operation really is now out of action.
The real problem with contemporary cybercrime is that [a] there are many ransomware gangs still operating, albeit now with less impunity than before, and [b] there are many other sorts of cybercrime.
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