{"id":55872,"date":"2022-01-14T10:08:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T08:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55872"},"modified":"2025-09-04T03:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:41:14","slug":"hackers-distributing-ransomware-uncovered-in-ukraine-losses-exceed-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/hackers-distributing-ransomware-uncovered-in-ukraine-losses-exceed-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers distributing ransomware uncovered in Ukraine; losses exceed $1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian police, in a joint investigation with law enforcement authorities in the United States and the United Kingdom, identified suspects behind ransomware attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u041f\u043e <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberpolice.gov.ua\/news\/kiberpolicziya-vykryla-xakerske-ugrupovannya-na-atakax-inozemnyx-kompanij-virusom-shyfruvalnykom-4133\/\">according to authorities<\/a>, <meta charset=\"utf-8\">the criminals distributed the ransomware via email spam campaigns, demanding cryptocurrency for data decryption.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 companies were affected by the group&#8217;s activities. The damage amounted to more than $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects also provided IP-address spoofing services.<\/p>\n<p>One of the defendants was already wanted in other countries for theft of customer data from British banks.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in October, Ukrainian cyberpolice, together with Europol, Interpol, the FBI and French authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ukraine-identifies-ransomware-operator-crypto-wallets-worth-1-3m-blocked\">identified the perpetrators<\/a> behind the spread of the ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian police, in a joint investigation with law enforcement authorities in the United States and the United Kingdom, identified suspects behind ransomware attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,16],"class_list":["post-55872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55872","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=55872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55874,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55872\/revisions\/55874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}