Moldovan officials have detained a 45 -year -old suspect associated with Dopelpere ransomware attacks targeting Dutch organizations in 2021.
Police officials searched the suspect’s house and car on 6 May, seizing an electronic wallet, € 84,800, two laptops, a mobile phone, a tablet, six bank cards and several data storage devices.
The suspected detention remains, while Moldovan prosecutors have initiated legal processes to extradite him in the Netherlands.
The arrest was associated with Moldovan prosecutors as a result of a joint action, which is the center of the country to combat cyber crimes, and law enforcement in the state of the Netherlands.
A Monday press release It was added that the suspect, described as “foreign nationals”, had allegedly pointed to the 2021 rangesware attack against the NWO (Dutch Research Council), causing the loss to approximately € 4.5 million.
NWO Revealed the incident On 14 February 2021, saying that the attack forced it to shut down its grant application system. Ten days later, the attackers published documents stolen from the council network on Dopelpere’s Dark web leaked site after the NWO refused to pay the ransom demand.
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Dopelpimmer ransomware
Dopelpere ransomware operation emerged after the partition of the Evil Corp Cybercrime Gang in June 2019, formed a new ranges and gang, which shared the same code as the bitpemmer of Evil Corp.
In addition to using stolen files to force the victims to give ransom, as they did in the case of NWO, dopelpere rangesware operators threatened to wipe the decription keys, if the victims contracted to get a better price to recover encrypted data to professional negotiaters.
As the FBI warned 2020 private industry alert“Before infecting the system with ransomware, the actors have made telephone calls to use exfiltrate data of actors in extortion schemes and to make more pressure to the victims to pay ransom.”
Doppelpaymer continued to attack large companies and important infrastructure outfits through 2022, rebranding twice as grief (aka salary or sorrow) and entropy ransomware.
Law enforcement in March 2023 considered two other individuals the main member of the Dopelpere Rainmware Group and issued arrest warrants for three other main members.
The list of gang victims includes high-profile companies and organizations worldwide, such as electronics giant Foxconn, Kia Motors America, Delaware County in Pennsylvania, Laptop Maker Complete and Newcastle University.
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