Moldovan law enforcement agencies arrested a 45-year-old foreign man suspected of participating in a series of attacks on ransom aimed at Dutch companies in 2021.
“He’s Abum – Note In a statement on Monday.
In conjunction with arrest, police seized more than 84,000 euros ($ 93,000) cash, electronic wallet, two laptops, a mobile phone, a tablet, six bank cards, two storage devices and six memory cards.
The name of the suspect was not disclosed. But he said he was detained after a search at his residence in Moldova. At least in one case the person was conducted Attack Rushing In the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), causing damage to the material worth about 4.5 million euros.
The attack took place in February 2021, causing the leakage of internal documents after the organization refused to pay. It was associated with the crew of the ransomware known as Doppelpaymer.
“The attacker blocked the network discs, issued the documents unavailable and stole some of our files,” NWO disclosed At the time. “After demand for a ransom that NWO cannot and will not accept in principle, the organization published some stolen files.”
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DoppelpaymerIt is estimated that the ransom family, which appeared for the first time in June 2019, is based on the compelling Bitpaymer programs, thanks to the likeness in their source, ransom notes and payment portals.
In March 2023, law enforcement agencies from Germany and Ukraine target The suspected members of the main cybercrime group standing behind large -scale attacks using Doppelpaymer Ransomware.
Germany also made arrests against the three alleged Dopelpimer operatives – Lero Alehavich, Igor Harshin (aka Igor Garsin) and Igor Zemlyanik – who are said to “the inspirers of the criminal group.
