The security service and the FBI, along with UK and EU law enforcement agencies, conducted a large-scale special operation in eight European countries.
The SBU, together with the FBI and partners from the EU, exposed an international hacker network that developed ransomware viruses to attack American and European companies. The SBU press service reported this on Thursday, May 30.
This is an international event Final Operationalready reported by Europol.
It has been reported that the Security Service and the FBI, along with UK and EU law enforcement agencies, have carried out large-scale special operations in eight European countries.
“As a result of the joint action, more than 30 members of the transnational hacker group involved in the development and distribution of malicious software were exposed, in particular, Pikabot, System BC, Bumblebee, Smokeloader and IcedID According to an international investigation, the attackers “hacked” the networks of well-known companies, and then sold access to these networks to other hackers, including the Russian groups BlackBasta, Revil and Conti,” the report said.
Hackers steal confidential information from well-known companies and then demand money for not disclosing it.
“Dozens of cases of extortion of money from representatives of Western corporations with a total of several tens of millions of US dollars have been documented. According to the case materials, in order to obtain secret information, the attackers penetrated on the electronic networks of corporations using specially created spyware and phishing Internet mailings,” they added.
In Ukraine, searches were conducted on the three defendants, and the equipment was found empty-handed. At the same time, in eight countries of the European Union and North America, law enforcement officials seized more than 90 servers and blocked more than 1,000 domains used by hackers.
We remind you that the early cyber specialists of the SBU, together with the law enforcement agencies of the USA, Great Britain and the European Union, exposed an international group of hackers and extortionists.
Source: korrespondent
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