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How the Kremlin provides a safe harbor for ransomware hackers

How the Kremlin provides a safe harbor for ransomware hackers
In the US last year, ransomware struck more than 100 federal, state and municipal agencies, and more than 500 hospitals and other care centers
By Frank Bajak / AP, BOSTON
A global epidemic of digital extortion known as ransomware is crippling local governments, hospitals, school districts and businesses by scrambling their data files until they pay up. Law enforcement has been largely powerless to stop it.
One big reason: Ransomware rackets are dominated by Russian-speaking cybercriminals who are shielded and sometimes employed by Russian intelligence agencies, according to security researchers, US law enforcement and now the administration of US President Joe Biden. ....

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US law enforcement and researchers point to Kremlin providing aid, protection to ransomware rackets

US law enforcement and researchers point to Kremlin providing aid, protection to ransomware rackets
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US law enforcement and researchers point to Kremlin providing aid, protection to ransomware rackets
A global epidemic of digital extortion known as ransomware is crippling local governments, hospitals, school districts and businesses by scrambling their data files until they pay up. Law enforcement has been largely powerless to stop it.
One big reason: Ransomware rackets are dominated by Russian-speaking cybercriminals who are shielded and sometimes employed by Russian intelligence agencies, according to security researchers, US law enforcement, and now the Biden administration. ....

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The Kremlin provides a safe harbor for ransomware

The Kremlin provides a safe harbor for ransomware
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How the Kremlin provides a safe harbor for ransomware | News, Sports, Jobs

Apr 17, 2021
BOSTON (AP) A global epidemic of digital extortion known as ransomware is crippling local governments, hospitals, school districts and businesses by scrambling their data files until they pay up. Law enforcement has been largely powerless to stop it.
One big reason: Ransomware rackets are dominated by Russian-speaking cybercriminals who are shielded and sometimes employed by Russian intelligence agencies, according to security researchers, U.S. law enforcement, and now the Biden administration.
On Thursday, as the U.S. slapped sanctions on Russia for malign activities including state-backed hacking, the Treasury Department said Russian intelligence has enabled ransomware attacks by cultivating and co-opting criminal hackers and giving them safe harbor. With ransomware damages now well into the tens of billions of dollars, former British intelligence cyber chief Marcus Willett recently deemed the scourge “arguably more strategically damaging than s ....

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Kremlin provides a safe harbour for Evil Corp and other ransomware attackers

The value of Kremlin protection isn’t lost on the cybercriminals themselves. Earlier this year, a Russian-language dark-web forum lit up with criticism of a ransomware purveyor known only as “Bugatti,” whose gang had been caught in a rare US-Europol sting.
The assembled posters accused him of inviting the crackdown with technical sloppiness and by recruiting non-Russian affiliates who might be snitches or undercover cops.
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Ukraine-born Maxsim Yukabets is co-leader of a cybergang that calls itself Evil Corp.
Worst of all, in the view of one long-active forum member, Bugatti had allowed Western authorities to seize ransomware servers that could have been sheltered in Russia instead. ....

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