Security News > 2022 > January > The Week in Ransomware - January 14th 2022 - Russia finally takes action
Today, the Russian government announced that they arrested fourteen members of the REvil ransomware gang on behalf of US authorities.
While the ransomware gang members are only being charged with "Illegal circulation of means of payment," the arrests are the first public action by Russia to stem the activities of ransomware gangs operating within the country.
AvosLocker is the latest ransomware gang that has added support for encrypting Linux systems to its recent malware variants, specifically targeting VMware ESXi virtual machines.
The Night Sky ransomware gang has started to exploit the critical CVE-2021-44228 vulnerability in the Log4j logging library, also known as Log4Shell, to gain access to VMware Horizon systems.
January 13th 2022 Ukranian police arrests ransomware gang that hit over 50 firms.
January 14th 2022 Russia arrests REvil ransomware gang members, seize $6.6 million.
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| 2021-12-10 | CVE-2021-44228 | Apache Log4j2 2.0-beta9 through 2.15.0 (excluding security releases 2.12.2, 2.12.3, and 2.3.1) JNDI features used in configuration, log messages, and parameters do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints. network low complexity apache siemens intel debian fedoraproject sonicwall netapp cisco snowsoftware bentley percussion apple critical | 10.0 |