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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 representative of the group, advertising the ransomware in June 2019 on the XSS cybercrime forum. He has now been identified as Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin , a 31-year-old Russian national. He also went by the online monikers Oneiilk2, Oneillk2, Oneillk22, and GandCrab. The development was reported by independent security journalist Brian Krebs. "From early 2019 at the latest until at least July 2021, the wanted person, in cooperation with other individuals, acted as the leader of one of the largest global ransomware groups, known as GandCrab/REvil," BKA said. "The perpetrators demanded large ransom payments in exchange for decrypting and not leaki...

The notorious ransomware operation known as REvil (aka Sodin or Sodinokibi) has resumed after six months of inactivity, an analysis of new ransomware samples has revealed. "Analysis of these samples indicates that the developer has access to REvil's source code, reinforcing the likelihood that the threat group has reemerged," researchers from Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU)  said  in a report published Monday. "The identification of multiple samples with varying modifications in such a short period of time and the lack of an official new version indicates that REvil is under heavy active development once again." REvil, short for Ransomware Evil, is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme and attributed to a Russia-based/speaking group known as  Gold Southfield , arising just as  GandCrab  activity declined and the latter announced their retirement. It's also one of the earliest groups to adopt the double extortion scheme in which stolen data from...

The operators behind the REvil ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS)  staged  a surprise return after a two-month hiatus following the widely publicized attack on technology services provider Kaseya on July 4. Two of the dark web portals, including the gang's Happy Blog data leak site and its payment/negotiation site, have resurfaced online, with the most recent victim added on July 8, five days before the sites  mysteriously went off the grid  on July 13. It's not immediately clear if REvil is back in the game or if they have launched new attacks. "Unfortunately, the Happy Blog is back online," Emsisoft threat researcher Brett Callow  tweeted  on Tuesday. The development comes a little over two months after a  wide-scale supply chain ransomware attack  aimed at Kaseya, which saw the Russia-based cybercrime gang encrypting approximately 60 managed service providers (MSPs) and over 1,500 downstream businesses using a zero-day vulnerability in the Kas...