REvil
REvil / Sodinokibi (Sodin ransomware / Pinchy Spider / GandCrab Successor / G0124) was one of the most operationally prolific ransomware operations of the 2019-2021 period, a financially- motivated organized cyber-criminal cluster operating from Russia from approximately April 2019 through October 2021 (approximately thirty months of sustained operations), widely treated by vendor consensus as operational successor to the earlier GandCrab ransomware operation (active 2018-2019), with strongest formal- attribution profile of any 2019-2021 ransomware operation grounded in multiple Western and Russian law-enforcement actions: (1) November 8, 2021 US DOJ indictments of Yaroslav Vasinskyi (Ukrainian national, born July 18, 1999, arrested at Polish- Ukrainian border October 8, 2021, extradited to US March 2022, pleaded guilty April 2024, sentenced May 2024 to thirteen years and seven months federal prison plus ~$16M USD restitution) and Yevgeniy Polyanin (Russian national, sanctions-designated by US Treasury OFAC same date, remains in Russia)
(2) operationally unusual January 14, 2022 Russian FSB arrests of fourteen REvil members in Moscow + St. Petersburg + Leningrad, temporary departure from Russian-government historical pattern of not pursuing cybercrime operators targeting Western victims, apparently motivated by US-Russia diplomatic engagement on the Kaseya attack including the June 16 2021 Biden-Putin Geneva Summit discussions, with subsequent Russia-Ukraine war effectively ending US-Russia counter-cybercrime cooperation.
most operationally consequential cluster operation the July 2-4, 2021 Kaseya VSA supply-chain attack exploiting CVE-2021-30116 zero-day affecting ~1,500+ downstream organizations globally primarily through MSP-targeting with cascading impact across ~20 countries (Coop Sweden closing ~800 stores) and unified $70M USD ransom demand , among the largest single ransom demands in the publicly-tracked record.
other high-profile victims including Travelex (Dec 2019, ~$2.3M USD ransom), Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks (May 2020), JBS Foods (May 30 2021, world's largest meat-processing company, $11M USD ransom payment confirmed), Acer (March 2021, $50M USD demand), Quanta Computer Apple supplier (April 2021, ~$50M USD demand)
effectively terminated operations October 2021 following FBI disruption activity and operator-initiated infrastructure shutdown, brief April-May 2022 operational resumption attempted did not sustain.