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Husband-Wife Arrested in Ukraine for Ransomware Attacks on Foreign Companies

Ukrainian police authorities nabbed five members of a gang that’s believed to have helped orchestrate attacks against more than 50 companies across Europe and the U.S. The gang offered a “hacker service” that enabled financially motivated crime syndicates to send phishing emails containing file-encrypted malware to lock confidential data pertaining to its victims. It’s not immediately clear what ransomware strain the perpetrators used to encrypt data on victim computers. The development is the latest in a string of law enforcement actions undertaken by Ukraine over the past year to tackle the menace of ransomware.”]

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2022/01/husband-wife-arrested-in-ukraine-for.html

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