Wu Shuo learned that the US Department of Justice has announced the prosecution of 48 year old Russian citizen Rustam Rafailevich Gallyamov, accusing him of leading the development and deployment of Qakbot malware and participating in global ransomware attacks. During the investigation, law enforcement agencies seized over 24 million US dollars of illegally obtained encrypted assets and have filed a civil confiscation lawsuit. The indictment states that Gallyamov has been manipulating Qakbot since 2008, and after 2019, he established a "botnet" to provide system access for his accomplices to implant ransomware such as Prolock, REvil, Black Basta, etc., and received profits from the ransom. https://www. (wublock123.com)/index.php? m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=6&id=42927