Two hackers were arrested last week for allegedly using hired REvil ransomware to generate $500K in payments after extorting over 5,000 victims, according to a press release by Europol Monday.
REvil sold ransomware tools to other hackers but its websites suddenly went offline in July, with one customer allegedly using their tools to breach 1,500 businesses to demand a $70MN ransom, but the chief operators of the group have still evaded arrest.
Europol also claims to have locked up a total of seven suspects since February, including three other affiliates, as well as a crackdown operation on REvil ransomware infrastructure.
DIICOT (the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism) and judicial police officers carried out four home searches in Constanța, seizing mobile devices (laptops, mobile phones) and storage media.
The Bucharest Tribunal also ordered the pre-trial detention for the two REvil affiliates for 30 days.
On the same day, Kuwaiti authorities also arrested a GandGrab ransomware affiliate, the three of them being suspected of roughly 7,000 attacks and of asking more than €200 million in ransoms.
In total, together with the ones apprehended on November 4, authorities arrested seven suspects linked to REvil and GandGrab since February 2021.
Three other individuals believed to be REvil affiliates were apprehended in South Korea in February, April, and October, and one was arrested in Europe last month.
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