As per reports, French police, in association with other European countries’ help, have arrested the members of the Egregor ransomware group in Ukraine.
Police Caught Members of Egregor Group
These are different, as the Egregor works as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model, where the makers of this malware are different from the distributors and ransom payments handlers. While the makers craft the malware, distributors are the hackers and other adversaries who infect the target networks and encrypt their systems.
It’s also reported that Egregor’s C2 and data leak site is offline since Friday, which shows a dent made on their infrastructure. Regarding this, Allan Liska from Recorded Future, a cybersecurity firm, said to ZDNet ,
“While there has been no police banner, as there often would be in this case, it is unusual for ransomware actors as well-resourced as Egregor to have all of their infrastructures go offline at the same time.”
Whatever, Egregor has made enough fortune to be retired if consequences didn’t turn out well. The ransomware group is in the top 5 list of most earned groups , squeezing somewhere between $40-$50 million in ransoms from its over 200 victims throughout the span.
