A major overseas ransomware group shut down last month after a pair of operations by U.S. Cyber Command and a foreign government targeting the criminals’ servers left its leaders too frightened of identification and arrest to stay in business
The foreign government hacked the servers of REvil this summer, but the Russian-speaking criminal group did not discover it was compromised until Cybercom last month blocked its website by hijacking its traffic, said the officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
In the hours after the Cybercom operation, which has not been previously reported, one of REvil’s leaders saw the site’s traffic had been redirected.“Domains hijacked from REvil,” wrote 0_neday, an REvil leader, on a Russian-language forum popular with cyber criminals, on Oct. 17. “The server was compromised,” he wrote hours later, “and they are looking for me.” And then: “Good luck everyone, I’m taking off.”Soon after, REvil ceased operations, such as recruitment of affiliates, ransom negotiations and distribution of malware.The Washington Post previously reported that REvil’s servers had been hacked in the summer, permitting the FBI to have access.
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