The German Federal Criminal Police Office, or BKA, has revealed the true identities of two well-known people who were part of the former REvil (also known as Sodinokibi) ransomware service This article explores ransomware attacks germany. . A 31-year-old Russian citizen named Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin, who went by the name UNKN, has been linked to a threat actor.
Anatoly Sergeevich Kravchuk, a 43-year-old Russian man from the Ukrainian city of Makiivka, is also on the wanted list. The group is said to have carried out 130 ransomware attacks in Germany, which cost victims €1.9 million. According to a report by independent security journalist Brian Krebs, the events together cost more than €35.4 million in damages.
In a shocking turn of events, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) announced in January 2022 that they had arrested several members of the infamous REvil ransomware gang. By October 2024, four people had been given prison sentences of many years. The group stopped doing business by October 2021, and after an investigation by law enforcement, the website where people could report data breaches was taken down.
UNKN told Dmitry Smilyanets of Recorded Future in March 2021 that they had been working in the ransomware industry since 2007 and that they used to have about 60 affiliates working for them. He remembered, "Once upon a time, I dug through trash and smoked cigarette butts."
