PANews reported on October 7 that according to Decrypt, 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. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Justice released an indictment accusing a member of Evil Corp of deploying the BitPaymer ransomware in the United States.
It is understood that the Evil Corp organization developed and spread 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.