Alleged Babuk ransomware gang leader ‘Wazawaka’ indicted, sanctioned by US

The U.S. government on Tuesday indicted and sanctioned Russia-based hacker Mikhail Matveev on accusations of running the Babuk cybercrime gang and being a “key actor in the Russian ransomware ecosystem.” Federal prosecutors in New Jersey and Washington, D.C., accused Matveev of participating in conspiracies to deploy the LockBit, Babuk and Hive ransomware variants and transmitting

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