India, May 23 -- In a multinational operation, more than $24 million in cryptocurrency was seized from the Russian leader of a group of cyber criminals who developed and deployed the Qakbot malware.
A federal indictment was charged against Rustam Rafailevich Gallyamov, 48, of Moscow, as part of an ongoing multinational investigation involving the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, the United Kingdom, and Canada to combat cybercrime.
Gallyamov's bot network was crippled by FBI and its international partners in 2023, but he continued to deploy alternative methods to make his malware available to criminal cyber gangs conducting ransomware attacks against innocent victims globally, said Assistant Director in Charge Akil...