OREANDA-NEWS Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia with the support of A.ACE specialists. the participants of the SugarLocker ransomware criminal group were identified and detained.

The hacker group worked under the guise of a legal IT firm Shake-IT, offering services for the development of landing pages, mobile applications, scripts, parsers and online stores. "In January 2024, three members of the SugarLocker group were detained by employees of the BSTM of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia with the participation of specialists from the F.A.C.C.T. company," the message says.

During the search, the suspects were found to have laptops, mobile phones, traces of correspondence and other digital evidence confirming their illegal activities. The defendants have already been charged under Article 273 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Creation, use and distribution of malicious computer programs."

Earlier in Moscow, the FSB detained hacker Artyom Khoroshilov in the case of DDoS attacks on objects of Russia's critical information infrastructure.