REvil gained notoriety as the Russian group behind the ransomware attack against meatpacker JBS SA. Vasinskyi and another alleged REvil operative, Russian national Yevgeniy Polyanin, were charged by the United States with conspiracy to commit fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, among other charges. Such companies typically handle back-office work for companies too small or modestly resourced to have their own tech departments. The U.S. indictment of the Ukrainian hacker said he and other conspirators started deploying hacking software around April 2019 and "regularly" updated and refined it. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPEuropol said earlier on Monday that Romanian authorities on Nov. 4 arrested two individuals suspected of cyber-attacks deploying the REvil ransomware.

Source: Fox News November 09, 2021 00:45 UTC