Northern District of Ohio Websites seized in multinational ransomware takedown United States Department of Justice
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ppThe US Attorneys Office for the Northern District of Ohio filed a complaint against a defendant known as Brain believed to be based in Europe and who is responsible for building a multinational ransomware organization known as Radar The complaint sought injunctive relief to prevent additional attacks on victims from occurring and authorized disruption of the ransomware by disabling domain names servers and IP addresses associated with the criminal enterprise Related ransomware domain names and servers in the United Kingdom and Germany were also disabled in a transnational coordinated effortppVictims include businesses and organizations located in more than three dozen countries throughout the world Among the victims in the northern district of Ohio were a trade union and a manufacturing companyppThe complaint alleges that the defendant developed a highly sophisticated and destructive form of software known as ransomware and used it to engage in wire fraud and unlawful interception of electronic communications This was accomplished by infecting victims computers which locked them out from accessing their own files Ransomware administrators then demanded the victims to pay a ransom in order to unlock the files Failure to pay the ransom could result in selling the victims data to nefarious third partiesppAccording to the FBI monetary losses incurred by individuals and organizations are estimated to be in the millions This is an ongoing investigation and the extent of the reach and damage inflicted is yet to be determinedppThis case was investigated by the FBI Cleveland Division the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office in Germany the National Crime Agency of the United Kingdom and the Prosecutors Office of Bamberg GermanyppThe case is being handled by Assistant US Attorney Brendan Barker for the Northern District of OhioppTo report ransomware attacks visit ic3gov or call 1800CALLFBI 18002255324ppJessica Salas NovakppJessicaSalasNovakusdojgovppA Russian national was sentenced yesterday to five years and four months in prison for his involvement in developing and deploying the malicious software known as Trickbot which was usedppA Russian national pleaded guilty today to his role in developing and deploying the malicious software known as Trickbot which was used to launch cyberattacks against American hospitals and otherppThree indictments in three different federal jurisdictions have been unsealed charging multiple Russian cybercrime actors involved in the Trickbot malware and Conti ransomware schemesppNorthern District of Ohio
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ppThe US Attorneys Office for the Northern District of Ohio filed a complaint against a defendant known as Brain believed to be based in Europe and who is responsible for building a multinational ransomware organization known as Radar The complaint sought injunctive relief to prevent additional attacks on victims from occurring and authorized disruption of the ransomware by disabling domain names servers and IP addresses associated with the criminal enterprise Related ransomware domain names and servers in the United Kingdom and Germany were also disabled in a transnational coordinated effortppVictims include businesses and organizations located in more than three dozen countries throughout the world Among the victims in the northern district of Ohio were a trade union and a manufacturing companyppThe complaint alleges that the defendant developed a highly sophisticated and destructive form of software known as ransomware and used it to engage in wire fraud and unlawful interception of electronic communications This was accomplished by infecting victims computers which locked them out from accessing their own files Ransomware administrators then demanded the victims to pay a ransom in order to unlock the files Failure to pay the ransom could result in selling the victims data to nefarious third partiesppAccording to the FBI monetary losses incurred by individuals and organizations are estimated to be in the millions This is an ongoing investigation and the extent of the reach and damage inflicted is yet to be determinedppThis case was investigated by the FBI Cleveland Division the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office in Germany the National Crime Agency of the United Kingdom and the Prosecutors Office of Bamberg GermanyppThe case is being handled by Assistant US Attorney Brendan Barker for the Northern District of OhioppTo report ransomware attacks visit ic3gov or call 1800CALLFBI 18002255324ppJessica Salas NovakppJessicaSalasNovakusdojgovppA Russian national was sentenced yesterday to five years and four months in prison for his involvement in developing and deploying the malicious software known as Trickbot which was usedppA Russian national pleaded guilty today to his role in developing and deploying the malicious software known as Trickbot which was used to launch cyberattacks against American hospitals and otherppThree indictments in three different federal jurisdictions have been unsealed charging multiple Russian cybercrime actors involved in the Trickbot malware and Conti ransomware schemesppNorthern District of Ohio
Main Office
Office of the United States Attorney
801 West Superior Avenue Suite 400
Cleveland Ohio 441131852ppEmail USANDOHppTelephone 2166223600
TTY 2165223086ppStay ConnectedppppHave a question about Government Servicesp
