25 years old, he is suspected of being involved in activities related to one of the main strains of rankongicials. Six gendarmes and a French prosecutor, but also agents of the FBI, Europol and Interpol have been mobilized in the operation.
Le Monde
Is the wind in favor of the authorities in their fight against the ranks? A new case shows that their efforts against this type of cybercrime, so far, or almost, are bear fruit.
By September 28, heavily armed agents of the Ukrainian National Police arrested a 25-year-old man suspected of being involved in the operations of one of the main strains of rankongicials, whose name was not unveiled. . Six gendarmes and a French prosecutor, but also agents of the FBI, Europol and Interpol have been deployed as part of this operation.
The ranks are malicious programs deployed by hackers in business networks to paralyze them before claiming a significant ransom, sometimes of several tens of millions of euros. This phenomenon, orchestrated by perfectly organized computer gangs, causes considerable damage in France for a few years. Last example: Enterprise La Martinique-Bardinet, the second French distributor of spirits after Pernod-Ricard.
Ratings ranging from 5 to 70 million euros
The group to which the arrested individual is suspected of belonging “to large industrial groups in Europe and North America from April 2020”, claiming them from ransoms “between 5 and 70 millions of euros “, Precise Europol , which coordinated the survey at European level.
According to our information, the gendarmes specializing in cybercrime have played a crucial role in the identification of the individual arrested.
according to the Ukrainian police , the individual arrested in September would have taken a hundred companies in Europe and North America and would have caused more than $ 150 million of damage. An accomplice too was worried. “IT equipment, mobile phones, vehicles and more than $ 360,000 in cash were seized” and “$ 1.3 million in cryptomonnaires were frozen,” says Ukrainian police in his communiqué.