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Law enforcement in the U.S. has taken back roughly $2.3 million in crypto funds that have been garnered through ransomware attacks. According to legal documents, the crypto was being held by a Russian man named Aleksandr Sikerin, who is believed to be living in St. Petersburg. Ransomware Is Getting Bad Sikerin is slated to be part of a notorious hacking group known as REvil. The organization has cost businesses throughout the world millions of dollars in crypto funds,...

The largest cryptocurrency ransomware attack has been added to the books. Russian hacking group REvil has allegedly encrypted the data of more than 1,000 firms and companies in nations such as the United States, Sweden, and New Zealand. To release the data, the organization is requesting more than $70 million in bitcoin. REvil Is Going After Other Countries’ Infrastructures Situations like these have grown relatively common in recent days, with another big example having...