The US authorities accused the Russian of cyber extortion in the amount of up to $ 13 million up to $ 13 million. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the US Department of Justice Merrick Garland.
“At the moment, the REvil ransomware program has been used on about 175 thousand computers around the world, at least $ 200 million in ransom has been paid.” , – he said at a press conference.
Earlier it was reported that the US authorities are planning to bring charges against the Russian citizen Polyanin and the Ukrainian Yaroslav Vasinsky of conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering. According to CNN, both suspects are members of the REvil organization. The criminals carried out a cyberattack on the American IT company Kaseya, the details of the incident were not disclosed.