4 members of the now-defunct REvil ransomware operation have been sentenced to a number of years in jail in Russia, marking one of many uncommon situations the place cybercriminals from the nation have been convicted of hacking and cash laundering costs.
Russian information publication Kommersant reported {that a} courtroom in St. Petersburg discovered Artem Zaets, Alexei Malozemov, Daniil Puzyrevsky, and Ruslan Khansvyarov responsible of unlawful circulation of technique of fee. Puzyrevsky and Khansvyarov have additionally been discovered responsible of utilizing and distributing malware.
To that finish, Zaets and Malozemov had been sentenced to 4.5 and 5 years in jail. Khansvyarov and Puzyrevsky obtained a jail time period of 5.5 and 6 years, respectively.
The 4 people are a part of a gaggle of 14 individuals who had been initially detained in reference to the case. As reported by TASS again in January 2022, eight of them had been charged by the courtroom for his or her malicious actions.
The remaining 4 members, Andrei Bessonov, Mikhail Golovachuk, Roman Muromsky, and Dmitry Korotaev, are being prosecuted below a brand new legal case associated to illegal entry to pc info, Kommersant added.
REvil, which was as soon as one of the vital prolific ransomware teams, was dismantled after Russia’s Federal Safety Service (FSB) introduced arrests towards a number of members in an unprecedented takedown.
Earlier this 12 months, a 24-year-old Ukrainian nationwide named Yaroslav Vasinskyi was sentenced to 13 years in jail within the U.S. and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution for finishing up greater than 2,500 REvil ransomware assaults and demanding ransom funds to the tune of greater than $700 million.
The sentencing of REvil members in Russia additionally comes a month after authorities within the nation opened an investigation into Cryptex and UAPS, each of which had been sanctioned by the U.S. for providing cash laundering companies to cybercriminals.