BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks
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BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks

April 6, 2026
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Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt) has unmasked the real identity of the main threat actors associated with the now-defunct REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. The threat actor, who went by the alias UNKN, functioned as a representative of the group, advertising the ransomware in June 2019 on the XSS cybercrime forum.

BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks
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