Germany unmasks the man behind REvil and GandCrab ransomware
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April 7, 2026
For years the hacker known as "UNKN" ran two of the most destructive ransomware operations on the internet. Germany's Federal Criminal Police — the Bundeskriminalamt, or BKA — now says that's Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin, a 31-year-old from Krasnodar, Russia, who authorities believe still lives there. — Read the rest
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