August 3, 2020 By Filip Truta
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus has announced the arrest of a 31-year-old man who served as an affiliate in the infamous GandCrab ransomware-as-a-service program.
“Office ‘K’ of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in cooperation with the Cyber police of Great Britain and Romania, identified a member of an international hacker group that used during 2017-2018, one of the most famous ransomware virus ‘GandCrab,’” reads a rough English translation of the press release. “On their account – more than 54 thousand infected computers around the world, 165 of which belong to the citizens of Belarus.”