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Phobos Ransomware Affiliates Arrested in Coordinated International Disruption

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Phobos Ransomware Affiliates Arrested in Coordinated International Disruption

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Phobos Ransomware Affiliates Arrested in Coordinated International Disruption

Roman Berezhnoy and Egor Nikolaevich Glebov, Russian nationals, were charged with operating a cybercrime group that deployed Phobos ransomware against over 1,000 public and private entities worldwide. The group collected more than $16 million in ransom payments across victims in the U.S. and internationally.

Why it matters: Organizations worldwide should verify if they were among the 1,000 plus victims and review their incident response and recovery measures; this disruption may temporarily reduce Phobos activity but affiliates may migrate to other ransomware families.

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