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US extradites Russian accused of extorting millions in Phobos ransomware payments
Phobos ransomware has been used to extort at least $16 million from over a thousand victims globally, according to the DOJ
An newly unsealed indictment reveals that these victims include a Maryland-based company that provided accounting and consulting services to federal agencies; several Maryland-based healthcare providers; a New York-based law enforcement union; an Illinois-based contractor for the U.S. Department of Defence and the U.S. Department of Energy; and a North Carolina-based children’s hospital. Ptitsyn and his co-conspirators allegedly advertised the Phobos ransomware for free through posts on cybercrime forums, but would then charge their affiliates around $300 to receive the decryption key to access the data that they stole from their victim. “Evgenii Ptitsyn allegedly extorted millions of dollars of ransom payments from thousands of victims and now faces justice in the United States thanks to the hard work and ingenuity of law enforcement agencies around the world — from the Republic of Korea to Japan to Europe and finally to Baltimore, Maryland,” said U.S. deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco in remarks.
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