BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks

Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt has unmasked the real identities of two of the key figures associated with the now-defunct REvil aka Sodinokibi ransomware-as-a-service RaaS operation. One of the threat actors, who went by the alias UNKN , functioned as a...

Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab

An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN " and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer...