Tashkent, Dec. 7 -- Law enforcement agencies of the United States and Britain announced the disclosure of the world's most dangerous hacker group called Evil Corp.

"Evil Corp is the most malicious hacker criminal group in the world, creating and distributing viruses that have led to financial losses totaling hundreds of millions of pounds in the UK alone," the British National Crime Agency (NCA) said in a statement.

At the same time, the US Treasury Department announced sanctions against six companies, as well as 17 persons associated with them, including citizens of Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Greece, Israel, Spain and Uzbekistan.

According to the US Treasury Department, Azamat Safarov-a citizen of Uzbekistan, born in 1990, was involved...