Gang that stole MacBook Pro blueprints completely shut down by Russian law enforcement

The Russian government says it has dismantled and detained criminal ransomware group REvil, which extorted Apple and launched high-profile ransomware campaigns, at the request of the United States.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it and the Internal Affairs Ministry carried out a special operation to take down REvil, which was responsible for a number of high-profile ransomware attacks in 2020 and 2021.In a press release Friday, the FSB said that the "organized criminal community has ceased to exist," and "the information infrastructure used for criminal purposes was neutralized."

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