The raids come amid a widespread cyberattack on Ukrainian government websites.
Earlier this year, REvil reportedly demanded $50 million from Apple ahead of its product launch after hacking one of its suppliers, Quanta Computer. Associates of the criminal ransomware group have been linked to theThe FSB's announcement came as Ukraine scrambled to respond to a cyber attack shutting down its public-facing government websites, including the homepage for the Foreign Ministry, which temporarily displayed a message warning Ukrainians to"be afraid and expect the worst.
The White House acknowledged, Friday, that one of the hackers arrested had been involved in the Colonial Pipeline incident. Moscow's Tverskoi District Court has placed the Muromsky, a Russian national suspected of illegal trafficking of means of payment, in custody for two months. In their statement, the FSB said Friday's investigation came at"the request of competent US authorities," who were later"informed about the results of the operation."
"Still, the timing is strange here," Ken Westin, Director of Security Strategy for Cybereason cautioned, in an interview with CBS News. The Russian-led raids"could be a smokescreen or red herring."
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