TechFlow reported on October 7 that Decrypt reported that the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) jointly imposed sanctions on key members of the ransomware gang Evil Corp last week.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Justice released an indictment charging a member of Evil Corp with deploying the BitPaymer ransomware in the U.S. The Evil Corp group is known to have developed and distributed Dridex, a malware that infected computers around the world and stole login credentials, resulting in more than $100 million being stolen from hundreds of banks and financial institutions in more than 40 countries.