Analyst firm Chainalysis has released a report showing that 74% of the money stolen from ransomware attacks in 2021 ended up in hacker accounts linked to Russia. According to analysts, about $400 million was sent to criminal groups in the form of cryptocurrency. Russia denies accusations of harboring intruders.

Chainalysis experts say that a huge amount of money laundering when using cryptocurrency is carried out through Russian companies. Chainalysis was able to trace that the flow of funds was directed to the digital wallets of known hacker groups.

The researchers concluded that the criminal groups are of Russian origin, since the attackers wrote the ransomware code in such a way that they did not damage files on the computers of victims from the Russian Federation and the CIS. Analysts also reported that the members of the groups communicated on Russian-language hacker forums.

A Chainalysis report says that 9.9% of ransomware revenue comes from Evil Corp. In November last year, the BBC published an investigation that demonstrates that members of the criminal group were based in the premises of Moscow City. From the apartments, which are estimated to be worth millions of dollars, the attackers controlled the activities of Evil Corp.

Chainalysis notes that the criminals used the business center's cryptocurrency companies to launder money.

Yesterday, a Yekaterinburg court sentenced 22 members of the Lurk hacker group. Despite the prosecutor's request to sentence the founder of the formation to 18 years in prison, he received 14 years. The remaining members of the group received from 5 to 13 years in a colony of general or strict regime. Since 2013, attackers have stolen 2.5 billion rubles from bank accounts. using a Trojan.

In the middle of last month, FSB officers detained all 14 members of the REvil hacker group in Moscow. During the operation, law enforcement officers seized 426 million rubles from criminals.

Also in January, FSB officers detained four members of the hacker group The Infraud Organization in Moscow. The formation was engaged in the theft and sale of bank card data and other personal information. In the United States, the attackers are charged with causing $530 million in damage. A few days after the arrest, the members of the organization agreed to a pre-trial agreement, they will testify against the founder of The Infraud Organization, Alexander Novak.

In early February, law enforcement agencies detained six members of another hacker group.

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