'Today's sanctions send a clear message to the Kremlin that we will not tolerate Russian cyberattacks - whether from the state itself or from its cybercriminal ecosystem,' foreign minister David Lammy says
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Evil Corp was once believed to be the most significant cyber crime threat in the world, Britain’s National Crime Agency said after taking coordinated action with officials in the United States and Australia. In its latest disclosure, the NCA said the group had been tasked by Russian intelligence services to conduct cyber-attacks and espionage operations against NATO allies, although it gave no further details.
The British agency said Evil Corp also had close connections with the ransomware group LockBit, which had targeted the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Boeing and Britain’s Royal Mail among others, and which Western law enforcement agencies disrupted earlier this year. Britain said among those targeted in its new sanctions, which included asset freezes and travel bans, were Yakubets, Artem Viktorovich Yakubets and Viktor Grigoryevich Yakubets.
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