The Russian Ministry of Justice is charged with an electronic crime group using Ransomwari

The Ministry of Justice accused two Russian citizens of allegedly operating a group of electronic crimes used ransom To attack hundreds of entities, he achieved more than $ 16 million in this process.

Roman Peresinoi, 33, and Egor Nikolaevich Glebov, 39, claimed that he used the Ransomware program called Phobos to penetrate the victim’s computer networks, copy and steal files, then encrypt the original data, according to A. A press release from the Ministry of Justice. Once the original data is encrypted, it is claimed that men and other participants in the scheme will lead to the victims of the ransom payments in exchange for keys that would allow victims to access the data again.

It is claimed that the men also threatened to expose the stolen files, and it is claimed that he has played a site on the dark web where the stolen data was published. The Ministry of Justice said that the victims of the plan included a children’s hospital, health care providers and educational institutions. Victims lost data and money.

Berezhnoy and Glebov have been arrested. The fees were announced on Tuesday.

Each of them was charged with one of the wire fraud conspiracy, one of the fraud of wires, the charge of consuming fraud and assault on the computer, and three charges that caused deliberate damage to the producers, and three accusations of extortion in the damage to the computer protection, one census to send A threat to weaken the stolen data confidentiality, one of the unauthorized access and obtain information from a mass computer.

If convicted, every fraud charge carries the maximum of 20 years in prison. All computer damage has a maximum 10 -year penalty. The remaining remaining of each of them is a maximum period of five years.

The arrests come at a time when the international authorities announced a number of measures against Internet criminals. newly, The Russian National Evgeni Ptitsyn He was arrested and handed over on a charge related to his alleged management of Phobos Ransomware. The Ministry of Justice said that the European and German authorities have also announced an operation that included the FBI and other law enforcement partners who have disrupted more than 100 servers linked to the Berezhnoy criminal network and Glebov.

On Tuesday, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom have the ZSERVERS penalty, a Russian -based hosting service provider that supports ransom attacks by a group called Lockbit. The collection uses software, which is also called Lockbit, to attack the similar data for those baurzhnoy and Glebov.

He said at the Secretary of the Ministry of Treasury in terrorism and financial intelligence, Bradley T. A press release announces the penalties. “Today’s triple work with Australia and the United Kingdom confirms our collective determination to disrupt all aspects of this criminal ecosystems, wherever, to protect our national security.”