Government officials in Belarus announced they had arrested an individual on charges of having helped to distribute GandCrab ransomware.
On July 30, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of Belarus revealed that it had arrested a 31-year-old resident of Gomel in cooperation with the United Kingdom and Romania.An investigation into the Gomel resident revealed that they had infected more than one thousand computers with GandCrab ransomware.Malicious actors involved GandCrab in various attack campaigns over the years. Back in August 2018, for instance, a group of digital attackers staged a spam email campaign to target South Korean users with version 4.3 of the ransomware. That was just a couple of months before the Fallout exploit kit made news for distributing GandCrab along with Kraken ransomware.Security researchers were busy working on a decryption tool throughout these campaigns. In October 2018, Bitdefender released a free GandCrab decryptor after the threat’s authors published keys specifically for citizens of Syra. Bitdefender went on to release two updated versions of its decryption software in February 2019 and June 2019.As reported by Trend Micro, the authors of GandCrab are believed to have re ..
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