Britain, the US and Australia have announced sanctions against 16 people accused of being part of the world’s most wanted cyber crime gang.

A Russian-based evil corporation is accused of stealing nearly $300 million over a decade of hacking.

Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) says it now supports the gang’s notorious leader, Maxime Jacobitis, by his father Victor Jacobitis, which he denied in an interview with the BBC in 2021. was

The information was released as part of a large, multinational operation to stop the evil corporation and another notorious hacking group called Lockbit.

Known for its mafia-style operation, the Evil Corporation has conducted a campaign of devastating cyberattacks around the world for more than a decade.

In 2019, Maxim Yakubits was sanctioned and a $5 million reward was placed for his capture, along with another man named Igor Turashev.

Other Russians, including Yakubits’ brother Artem, were also named as part of the US sanctions and designations.

BBC in 2021 Traveled to Russia. Finding and interviewing gang members to get their side of the story.

In one of Maxim Jacobites’ former homes we find his father, who passionately defends his son, claiming that he is personally innocent.

But now the NCA says Yakubets Senior was a major part of the cybercrime group, alleging he was helping the gang launder some of its stolen funds.

Along with members of the Jacobites family, Maxim’s father-in-law was also approved to help coordinate the group’s security and its links to Russia’s security services.

Western authorities have now officially linked a former high-ranking FSB official, Eduard Bendersky, to the evil corporation.

“Maksim Yakubets and his Evil Corp gang have lived an archetypal Russian hacker playboy lifestyle for years seemingly untouchable by law enforcement, but today’s announcement shows we’re still watching, dig. have been and are determined to disrupt them and bring them to justice,” said Will Lane, head of cyber intelligence at the NCA.

Lockbit connections

Another of those sanctioned is Alexander Ryzenkov, described by the NCA as the right-hand man of the Jacobites, and associated with the notorious ransomware gang Lockbit.

This is the first time that a member of Evil Corp has been linked to another major gang and shows that hackers are working in groups to carry out attacks.

Along with the bans, four arrests were made, including two in the UK.

In August, the NCA executed a number of search warrants in the south of England and arrested a 46-year-old man suspected of being linked to Lockbit.

A 50-year-old woman was also arrested on charges of money laundering.

He was also interviewed and later released under investigation while the criminal investigation continues.

The two men were identified through the analysis and enrichment of data obtained during Operation Cronus – the international police operation that brought down Lockbit’s internal infrastructure.

“The action announced today comes in conjunction with the NCA’s extensive and complex investigations into two of the most damaging cybercrime groups of all time,” said James Babbage, director general for threats at the NCA.

The NCA said the links of the evil corporation with the Russian state had been revealed.

“Today’s sanctions send a clear message to the Kremlin that we will not tolerate Russian cyberattacks — whether by the state itself or its cybercriminal ecosystem,” said Foreign Secretary David Lemmy.