{"id":29319,"date":"2020-09-28T17:13:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T14:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=29319"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:18:29","slug":"revil-ransomware-crew-posts-more-than-1-million-in-bitcoin-on-hacker-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/revil-ransomware-crew-posts-more-than-1-million-in-bitcoin-on-hacker-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"REvil ransomware crew posts more than $1 million in Bitcoin on hacker forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hacker group behind the spread of the REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware on a Russian-language hacker forum announced it was seeking teams or specialists for <simple_tooltip content='a method for assessing the security of computer systems or networks by modelling an attacker\\'s attack'>penetration testing<\/simple_tooltip>. It also posted a deposit of 99 BTC (more than $1 million at the time of writing). According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/revil-ransomware-deposits-1-million-in-hacker-recruitment-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bleeping Computer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the REvil team, they are seeking professionals who have already worked with penetration testing or people who have experience but are not currently employed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hackers also said they had posted on the forum a $1 million deposit to reassure potential partners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier in 2020, the Sodinokibi ransomware gang attacked the computer network of currency company Travelex. The hackers demanded a $6 million Bitcoin ransom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was reported that Travelex paid the hackers $2.3 million in cryptocurrency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In April, the Sodinokibi developers announced that they would abandon Bitcoin in favour of Monero to hinder law enforcement from tracking transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hacker group behind the spread of the REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware on a Russian-language hacker forum announced it was seeking teams or specialists for penetration testing. It also posted a deposit of 99 BTC (more than $1 million at the time of writing). According to Bleeping Computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154],"class_list":["post-29319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29321,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29319\/revisions\/29321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}