Ilya Angelov, 40, from Tolyatti, Russia, also had to pay a $100,000 fine This article explores iab yanluowang ransomware. . Angelov was in charge of a group of cybercriminals in Russia called TA551.
TA551 let the BitPaymer ransomware group use its botnet. The DoJ said that this led to 72 U.S. companies paying more than $14.17 million in extortion payments. The news comes a day after another Russian citizen, 26-year-old Aleksei Olegovich Volkov, was sentenced to almost seven years in prison for acting as an initial access broker (IAB) for Yanluowang ransomware attacks on eight U.N. companies between July 2021 and November 2022. People think that TA551 worked with TrickBot trojan operators to spread Conti Ransomware in late 2021 or early 2020.
We don't know how bad the damage is yet, but it's thought to have happened after theBitPaymer group was broken up. The FBI says that the collaboration lasted until about August 2021. After the police took down the Emotet botnet at the beginning of 2021, the Lockean ransomware gang may have also used distribution services from TA551.
"Their methods are getting more advanced. U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. said, "But their goal is still the same: to hurt us and steal from us."
