The US Department of Justice Ministry announced On Monday, he has occupied the servers and $ 1 million in Bitcoin from the Ransomware productive Russian gang behind Blackssuit and Royal Malware.
According to the press release, a coalition of global law enforcement services, including the US, Canada, Germany, Ireland, France, the United Kingdom and others, occupied four servers and nine areas on July 24. In addition, authorities also occupied about $ 1 million in encryption.
Blackssuit and Royal are two different types of ransomware, believed to be developed by the same Russian cyberspace that has targeted critical infrastructure in the United States and beyond.
“Blacksuit actresses demanded a total of more than $ 500 million and the biggest individual ransom demand was $ 60 million,” US Cisa Cyber he said to counseling last year.
“The persistent targeting of the US infrastructure of the American gangs of Blacksuit Ransomware is a serious threat to US public security,” the Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said in a press release.
According to the surveys of the homeland of Icewhich has led to the investigation, Royal and Blacksuit have at stake more than 450 victims in the US, “including entities in the field of healthcare, education, public security, energy and government sectors”. And, overall, cyberspace criminals have earned more than $ 370 million in ransom payments by 2022.
The recovered bitcoin was recovered by a digital foreign exchange account, which was frozen in January last year, according to the announcement.
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