Sikerin Alexander

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2021: Confiscation of cryptocurrency for $2.3 million

On December 1, 2021, a court document was published according to which, in August 2021, law enforcement officers USA confiscated about $2.3 million in to cryptocurrency attacks committed ransomware by a resident. Russia

US law enforcement agencies confiscated a crypto wheelchair containing 39.8 from bitcoins Alexander Sikerin, who is associated hacker with the REvil group. The last known address of Sikerin was in, the St. Petersburg complaint says. The Exodus crypto wallet, which at the time of withdrawal was estimated at $1.5 million, "is associated with ransomware attacks committed by Sikerin."

FBI confiscated $2.3 million in cryptocurrency from Russian hacker Sikerin Alexander

The United States of America is filing this confirmed complaint with the Department of Justice for 39.89138,522 bitcoins seized from the Exodus purse, which is currently in storage and managed by the Dallas branch of the FBI, according to a complaint filed in the Northern District of the Dallas branch of Texas.

The seizure is part of ongoing efforts by US law enforcement agencies to block funding sources for Russian and Eastern European cybercriminals after a series of ransomware attacks on the infrastructure of the United States and other countries.

In November 2021, law enforcement officials announced that they had confiscated about $6 million in payments using ransomware from a Ukrainian citizen also associated with REvil. Yaroslav Vasinsky was arrested in Poland in September 2021 for a hacker attack that covered about 1,500 enterprises around the world. Vasinsky and another alleged REvil member, Yevgeny Polyanin, were accused of conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering.

It is believed that REvil members are responsible for ransomware attacks worth more than $200 million between April 2019 and July 2021. REvil and other similar groups are primarily aimed at private companies, but since the United States does not have an extradition agreement with Russia, some of the wanted people remain at large.^[1]

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