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Who Runs the Ransomware Group 'The Gentlemen?' (krebsonsecurity.com)
57 points by Bender 5 hours ago
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Might be interesting, this buymeacoffee page interviews cybercriminals: (https://buymeacoffee.com/insidedarknet/posts)
Brian on Mastadon:

One thing I didn't mention in the story is the potential consequences of top RU hackers being outed [...] such as interference and shakedowns from tax authorities and local police, extortion or even kidnapping for their considerable ill-gotten crypto wealth.

Oh, the turntables...

I wonder if the article will get translated and spammed to authorities in his locality.
Is this group real ? Do they have a page where they display the victims and scenarios? Or this is just another group invented by some people to create some good stories?
Alexander Yapaev, alias Hastalamuerte, orchestrates a dark digital extortion empire.