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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 activitie...

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. Uncredited/AP 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, Bugat...

Putin confidants advanced Russia's campaign to undermine US Prez polls ​ Fri, Apr 16 2021 16:06 IST | ​ 4 Views No difficulties for Russia under Biden presidency: Putin. Image Source: IANS News Moscow, April 16 : While imposing the latest sanctions, the US Treasury Department said that private and public sector corruption facilitated by Russian President Vladimir Putin has enriched his network of confidants, who used their illicit business connections to advance Moscows campaign to undermine the 2020 US presidential election. On Thursday, the Department said that members of this networ...

How the Kremlin provides a safe harbour for ransomware by Frank Bajak, The Associated Press Posted Apr 16, 2021 3:02 am EDT Last Updated Apr 16, 2021 at 3:14 am EDT 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 secur...

How the Kremlin provides a safe harbor for ransomware FRANK BAJAK, AP Technology Writer April 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - A Russian man identified as Alexander Vinnik, center, is escorted by police officers from the courthouse at the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, in this Friday, Sept. 29, 2017, file photo. Vinnick, convicted of laundering $160 million in criminal proceeds through a cryptocurrency exchange, is currently imprisoned in France and might yield additional information about the intersection of organized cybercrime and the Russian state.Giannis Papanikos/AP BOSTON (A...