“ASD must have shelled this guy a million different ways. Even his shells have shells. Absolutely thrilled to see this from the Australian government/DFAT. They probably know this guy better than he knows himself at this point.”
That was the Twitter response of Australia’s foremost independent chronicler of grey, dark grey and just black cyber operations and realpolitik, Patrick Gray, of the deep sec-tech podcast Risky Business (guests by invitation only), over the sanctioning of Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov.
The Russian is an allegedly key player in the REvil ransomware and cybercrime crew officially blamed for the epic Medibank hack, exfiltration and data spill of 10 million sensitive customer records.
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