Ransomware groups typically hack into computer networks and deploy malicious software that encrypts computers and makes them unusable.
Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, who was known online as Wazawaka, was an active member of three ransomware gangs that collectively demanded US$400mil from victims and received nearly US$200mil in ransom payments, according to the Department of Justice.
Matveev was allegedly a member of the Lockbit, Babuk and Hive ransomware gangs. Those groups are"ranked among the most active and destructive cybercriminal threats in the world,” Philip Sellinger, the US attorney for the district of New Jersey, wrote in an indictment. Matveev, along with other members of the ransomware gangs, attacked as many as 2,800 victims in the US and around the world, Sellinger wrote.
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