This malware is FREE for EVERY crook ($300 decryption keys sold separately)
A Russian citizen has been extradited from South Korea to the United States to face charges related to his alleged role in the Phobos ransomware operation., since November 2020 the Phobos crew let criminals use its Windows ransomware for free to infect others, then charged those crooks $300 per decryption key, which were then resold to victims for amounts determined by the intruders.
"Each deployment of Phobos ransomware was assigned a unique alphanumeric string in order to match it to the corresponding decryption key, and each affiliate was directed to pay the decryption key fee to a cryptocurrency wallet unique to that affiliate," the US Justice Dept said in a Allegedly using the handles 'derxan' and 'zimmermanx,' Ptitsyn and his crew are accused of distributing the malware on dark web markets.
The Russian is charged with 13 crimes, including wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud, four counts of causing intentional damage to protected computers, and another four of extortion. If convicted and given the maximum penalty, he faces over a century behind bars.
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