Ukrainian Police Nab Six Tied to CLOP Ransomware
Summary: Ukrainian Cyber Police this week charged six people alleged to be part of the CLOP ransomware group and conducted 21 searches in the Kyiv region, seizing computer equipment, cars and 5 million hryvnias ($184,679). CLOP, active since early 2019 and said to have extorted more than half a billion dollars, spent the past six months exploiting four zero-day flaws in Accellion's File Transfer Appliance against customers including Kroger, Jones Day, Qualys and Singtel, and has posted stolen data from Stanford, UCLA and the University of Maryland on its deep web site.
What you should know: Intel 471 assesses the raids hit only CLOP's cash-out and money-laundering side, with core actors probably in Russia and the overall impact expected to be minor - so the terabytes of stolen university and corporate data remain posted, and the group's brand, not its operators, may be what disappears.
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