At Request of U.S., Russia Rounds Up 14 REvil Ransomware Affiliates
Summary: Russia's Federal Security Service arrested 14 people accused of working for the REvil ransomware group, searched more than two dozen addresses in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Leningrad and Lipetsk, and seized over $600,000, 426 million rubles, 500,000 euros and 20 premium cars. The FSB said the raids followed a U.S. request, and TASS named two defendants, Roman Gennadyevich Muromsky and Andrey Sergeevich Bessonov.
Bottom line: The timing is the story: Russia moved against REvil while roughly 100,000 troops sat on Ukraine's border, and CrowdStrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch called it 'ransomware diplomacy' - a signal that cooperation on ransomware investigations is now a bargaining chip tied to sanctions.
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