The US and Britain imposed sanctions against Misha Krutysha, Mentos and Bentley

11 members of the Trickbot hacker group were subject to American and British sanctions . The US accuses her of attacks on companies and the country's government , as well as hospitals during the covid-19 pandemic

The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has published a new sanctions list that includes 11 people. The list states that the sanctions were imposed for activities in cyberspace; the US Treasury Department considers these people to be members of the Trickbot hacker group. In addition to names, the list contains the nicknames of those subject to sanctions.

it included:

Mikhail Chernov (BULLET) - dealt with internal issues of the group; Maxim Galochkin (BENTLEY, CRYPT, VOLHVB) - HEAD of the testing group; Maxim Khaliullin (KAGAS) - HR manager; Artem Kurov (NANED) - programmer and developer; Sergey Loguntsov - developer; Alexander Mozhaev (GREEN, ROCCO) - administrator; Dmitry Putilin (GRAD, STAFF) - was involved in the purchase of equipment; Maxim Rudensky - head of the programming team; Mikhail Tsarev (MANGO, MISHA KRUTYSHA, SUPER MISHA) - was responsible for the management of the group and its accounting; Vadim Valiakhmetov (MENTOS, VASM, WELDON) - programmer; Andrey Zhukov (DEFENDER, DIF) is a senior administrator of the group.

An explanation from the US Treasury says that the people sanctioned are key participants in the “Russia-based cybercriminal group Trickbot.” According to the department, the group “has ties to Russian intelligence services” and its targets were the American government, companies, and hospitals. “During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trickbot group targeted many critical infrastructure and healthcare providers in the United States,” the Treasury said.

At the same time, Trickbot acted before. The report said that the Trojan virus, called Trickbot, was first identified in 2016, but it had a predecessor, Dyre, which was used back in 2014. Both viruses were used to steal financial data. Based on them, ransomware programs emerged, which, among other things, interfered with the work of medical institutions in 2020.

The US Cybersecurity Agency reported in May 2021 that Trickbot reached victims' computers through links or attachments in emails. For example, the letters contained “evidence of traffic violations.” Following the link, victims were taken to a phishing site, clicked on a photo with a violation, after which the download of malware began.

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The US and the UK conducted an investigation into the group's activities. She also imposed sanctions against these people.