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Germany Doxes "UNKN," Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/germany-doxes-unkn-head-of-ru-ransomware-gangs-revil-gandcrab/
87•Bender•2h ago

Comments

alexmocki•2h ago
This reads less like “hacking” and more like an optimized business.

Clear specialization, outsourcing, and reinvestment — very similar to how startups scale.

raverbashing•1h ago
Ah yes a business like the mafia
tgv•1h ago
The parent commenter has apparently never heard of organized crime.
kgeist•1h ago
Found his record in Russia's official company registry. This is what he officially does as an entepreneur:

  56.10 — Restaurant activities and food delivery services

  47.23 — Retail sale of fish, crustaceans, and mollusks in specialized stores

  47.25.12 — Retail sale of beer in specialized stores

  47.25.2 — Retail sale of soft drinks in specialized stores

  47.29.39 — Retail sale of other food products in specialized stores, not included in other groups

  68.20 — Lease and management of own or leased real estate
Money is reinvested into selling beer and fish :) Interestingly, he registered all that in 2019, just when the ransoms started.
ivan_gammel•1h ago
Classic money laundering.
tokai•19m ago
> 56.10 — Restaurant activities and food delivery services

That one is a classic for russian criminals and warlords.

wat10000•46m ago
Go look at the al Qaeda emails recovered from the raid that killed bin Laden and you'll find all the same stuff. Turns out that the way businesses operate is just a good way to operate human organizations in general, whether their goal is to sell widgets or blow up infidels.
Phelinofist•1h ago
Spiegel recently did a video on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuwRrqM6H1M
nailer•54m ago
Feels odd for an infosec blog to use 'doxxing' this way. Doxxing is generally considered to be unethical exposure of personal information.

Identifying a criminal is ethical.

cucumber3732842•52m ago
>Identifying a criminal is ethical.

This outsourcing of one's morals to the state is excessive even by already high western white collar internet standards.

Now, make no mistake, these guys are up to no good and probably should be identified and prosecuted, but to just declare that a bad thing is now good because government is doing it is basically an abdication of one's moral compass. At best this is still a bad thing but a necessary one because all the other options are worse. Like shooting someone in self defense, or putting someone in a cage for doing sufficiently bad things.

Edit: I'll admit I played too loose with ethics vs morality here, but still the point stands.

wat10000•49m ago
"Identifying a criminal" doesn't imply that it's done by the government, and being done by the government doesn't imply that it's done to a criminal. This comment seems like quite a leap.
jstanley•42m ago
It's the government who defines what "criminal" means.
wat10000•36m ago
Not necessarily. I'm free to make my own determination on the matter.
dmos62•49m ago
Innocent until proven guilty (in a court of law)?
wswin•41m ago
not the state, but the law
gigatexal•37m ago
ethics and morality are not interchangeable are they?

anyway individuals willingly give to teh state some autonomy in return for the safety of governance... that's the social contract free people have with government

"doxxing" a Russian ransomware group is the kind thing to do. bombing them out of existence is within the remit of the range of ideas a government could resort to...

mc32•30m ago
Not disagreeing with your preface but I was under the impression that while it took governments some time to figure things out, kinetic bombing in retaliation for cyberwarfare was pretty much ruled out unless the cyberwarfare results in direct mass casualties (for example cyber sabotaging a refinery results in an explosion which results in casualties.). Else we’d have bombed North Korea, China, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, etc.
Yokohiii•24m ago
Certainly, criminals also have a right to privacy. However, the limited publication of personal data of criminals by law enforcement is generally a legally legitimate measure. Doxxing, on the other hand, is generally a process that violates the fundamental right to privacy.
cucumber3732842•14m ago
>criminals

>law

>legally

You keep using these words but it causes circular logic as those are all defined by the same entity that is acting unilaterally.

The action the government took was not a "good" action by any moral standard. But it was perhaps the least worse auction. Can't just whisk people off the street in a foreign country or drone them over such matters, those options would be worse.

moffkalast•51m ago
I think they obviously just took it as 'exposure of personal information' period.
layer8•18m ago
> Identifying a criminal is ethical.

I agree that “doxxing” is being misused in TFA, but criminals have privacy rights like anyone else. Violating these rights requires specific justification, it’s not automatically ethical.

KingOfCoders•13m ago
They put the person on a wanted list.
layer8•9m ago
My comment isn’t about this specific case. It’s about the general claim.
KingOfCoders•30m ago
Putting someone on a (most) wanted list is "doxing"?

[Edit] "An international search is underway for Daniil Maksimovich SHCHUKIN on suspicion of numerous counts of gang-related and commercial extortion using ransomware to the detriment of commercial enterprises, public facilities, and institutions."

mc32•26m ago
Unfortunately language tends to get diluted. Nowadays in pop culture it means publishing anyone's personal information, usually against their wishes.
KingOfCoders•23m ago
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
moomin•22m ago
Yeah, I’m not okay with this. Doxxing is a term with an extremely negative connotation and is often done to people who, bluntly, weren’t hiding or doing anything wrong. The correct term for the same act here is either “accuse” or “unmask”.
embedding-shape•11m ago
If someone wasn't previously known, only an alias or alter-ego, but you then link those together with a real-life identity, that's very much the definition of "doxxing", at least the original definition, maybe it's different today? Positive or negative doesn't really matter, just like "shooting" or "jumping" in itself isn't positive or negative, it's just a verb.
embedding-shape•10m ago
> Putting someone on a (most) wanted list is "doxing"?

No, if they just put UNKN on the most wanted list, then it wouldn't be doxing. But then they also tie UNKN together with "Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin", and that's the doxxing, regardless or not if it's on a most wanted list.

KingOfCoders•5m ago
I think this is not how wanted lists work, here in Germany at least. Do they work this way where you are living?

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