In 2020, the Japanese publisher was attacked by a group called Ragnar Locker, which demanded $11 million.

Europol said that it had provided the Ragnar Locker group with a large weed. They carried out the attack on Capcom in 2020, when they demanded $11 million and 400,000 people’s data was involved. Europol has been investigating the gang in other cases as they have attacked “critical infrastructure” around the world, most recently targeting the Portuguese national airline and an Israeli hospital.

A key figure in the case was arrested in Paris on October 16 after an international manhunt. As a result, infrastructure (hardware) for ransomware attacks was seized in the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden. Five other suspects were questioned in Latvia and Spain, and the main perpetrator, who police believe was one of the group’s developers, was brought before a Paris court at the end of the week, “at the end of the week of action.”

According to Europol, Ragnar Locker attacks Windows devices and usually (also) uses remote desktop access as a loophole to take control of the victim’s computer or system. Once inside the system, the ransomware group makes a double demand. The victim must pay for the tools needed to decrypt the encrypted files and also ensure that the sensitive data obtained does not fall into unauthorized hands. The group has explicitly forbidden the victim to ask for help, otherwise they could find themselves on the “Wall of Shame” on the Dark Web and the stolen data could be released…

According to Europol, the website, which was set up in Sweden, is currently inaccessible after the necessary steps were taken with Eurojust and eleven international law enforcement agencies (including the US FBI). Edvardas Šileris, head of Europol’s European Cybercrime Center, hopes that this round of arrests will send a strong message to ransomware operators who think they can continue their attacks without consequence.

But there will always be another…

Source: PCGamer