The US and UK imposed sanctions on 11 members of the Russian cybercrime group Trickbot

the US Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) I reported on Thursday that, in coordination with the United Kingdom, Sanctions were imposed on eleven people belonging to the Russian cybercrime group Trickbotlinked to the intelligence services.

In another concurrent action, without providing further details, the US Department of Justice on Thursday charged nine people in connection with the incident. Trickbot malware schemes And the Conte kidnapping programme. Seven of them are also on the OFAC sanction list.

Today’s sanctions list includes administrators, directors, developers and programmers who financially assisted Trickbot in its operations, a group with ties to Russian intelligence services that has attacked the US government and companies.

“Russia has long been a safe haven for cybercriminals, including the Trickbot groupThe Office of Foreign Assets Control noted.

These sanctions come after the United States and the United Kingdom announced a similar decision against members of the group in February.

Trickbot, first identified in 2016 by security researchers, was a Trojan that evolved from Dyre, an online banking Trojan run by Moscow-based individuals, which began targeting non-Russian companies and entities in mid-2016.

Dyre and Trickbot are developed and operated by a group of cybercriminals to steal financial data.

Trickbot Trojan viruses have infected millions of computers around the worldincluding US companies and individual victims.

For example, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Trickbot targeted hospitals and healthcare facilities, launching a wave of ransomware attacks against hospitals across the United States.

One such attack targeted three medical facilities in Minnesota, disrupting their computer and phone networks and causing ambulances to be diverted.

Current members of the Trickbot Group are linked to the Russian intelligence services.

As a result of Thursday’s action, all property and interests in property of persons located in the United States or in the possession or control of US persons must be blocked and reported to OFAC.

in June, US government advertisement Penalties against a Alleged Russian spy charged with undermining the electoral process United States, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom and Ireland.

The US Department of the Treasury has identified the sanctioned person as: Alexei Borisovich Sukhodulov He confirmed that he works for Russian Federal Security Service (FSB, in English), Russia’s main security service and successor to the KGB.

Sukhodolov worked closely with another person sanctioned by the United States for espionage in July 2022, Alexander Viktorovich Ionov, who since 2020 has been providing FBS with information about controversial issues to the United States with the aim of dividing American society, according to the Treasury Department.

Sukhodolov was responsible for supervising Ionov and the two worked together in security operations. “evil influence” to and undermine elections in the United States, Ukraine, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

With these sanctions, the United States seeks Freeze all assets That the reprimanded individuals may be present in the country and prohibited from conducting financial transactions with any U.S. citizen; This makes it difficult for them, in theory, to access the dollar-based international financial system.

(with info from EFE)