TechFlow news, October 7 — According to Decrypt, last week the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) jointly imposed sanctions on key members of the ransomware group Evil Corp.
At the same time, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment charging a member of Evil Corp with deploying the BitPaymer ransomware within the United States. Evil Corp is known for developing and distributing Dridex, a malware that has infected computers worldwide, stealing login credentials and leading to over $100 million in theft from hundreds of banks and financial institutions across more than 40 countries.
