CNN: US authorities will bring charges of cyber extortion against Ukrainian and Russian citizen conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering. It is reported by CNN.
According to the TV channel, both suspects are members of the REvil organization. They are expected to be charged with cyber extortion, which nearly received the hackers a $ 6 million ransom. The criminals carried out a cyberattack on the American IT company Kaseya, the details of the incident were not disclosed.
The charges are likely to be announced by the US Department of Justice on Monday evening, November 8.
Vasinsky was arrested in October in Poland, Polyanin is at large.
In October, the REvil hackers themselves became victims of an attack carried out by the FBI and a number of US secret services, as well as their partners from other countries. “Our servers have been compromised. They are looking for me. Good luck to everyone, I'm disconnecting, “wrote the mouthpiece of REvil on the darknet in its last message.