One of the hackers detained by the FSB from the REvil group was allegedly involved in a cyber attack on the American pipeline company Colonial Pipeline in the spring of 2021. This was reported at the US White House on Friday, January 14.
The United States welcomed the arrest of the group and called the actions of Russian law enforcement officers “very important steps.”
According to an administration official, the US does not link the activities of the hackers and their arrest to what is happening now between Russia and Ukraine.
On January 14, the FSB stopped the activities of the REvil criminal community, whose members were engaged in stealing money using malicious software.
The basis for the search activities was the appeal of the competent authorities of the United States. It is noted that the FSB has established the full composition of the REvil criminal community and the involvement of its members in the illegal circulation of funds. According to the department, members of REvil developed malicious software, organized the theft of money from the bank accounts of foreign citizens and their cashing out. REvil gained notoriety in the West after being accused of a large-scale cyberattack on American companies.
More than 426 million rubles were seized at the addresses of the members of the criminal community, including in cryptocurrency, $600 thousand, €500 thousand, as well as crypto wallets and computer equipment.
Commenting on the FSB operation, Sergey Redhunt, an independent information security researcher and author of the Russian OSINT project, told Izvestia that the REvil hacker criminal community is unlikely to resume its activities.
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