Several alleged Russian cyber criminals were indicted after an FBI investigation a multi-million dollar ransomware scheme targeting hospitals, schools, and other businesses.
Fox News correspondent Mike Tobin has the latest on the growing trend of cyber gangs stealing personal data and holding it for ransom on 'Special Report.'were indicted in a multi-million dollar ransomware scheme targeting hospitals, schools, and other businesses.
A federal grand jury in the Northern District of Ohio returned indictments for Maksim Galochkin, Maksim Rudenskiy, Mikhail Mikhailovich Tsarev, Andrey Yuryevich Zhuykov, Dmitry Putilin, Sergey Loguntsov, Max Mikhaylov, Valentin Karyagin, Maksim Khaliullin, and charged them with conspiring to use the malware to steal money and personal information from victims, including businesses and financial institutions.
The Middle District of Tennessee indictment alleges that Galochkin, Rudenskiy, Tsarev, and Zhuykov conspired to use Conti to attack"hundreds of victims" including hospital systems, local governments, and foreign governments. In one case, prosecutors allege, the defendants extorted funds from people within the judicial district and encrypted computer systems of a sheriff's department, police department, emergency medical services, and more.
The FBI official said that Conti would attempt a"double extortion" on its victims, stating that before the files were encrypted"they would expel data out from the system and then publish it if people didn't pay to a leak site." The FBI seal is displayed on a podium before a news conference at the agency's headquarters in Washington.
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