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SECRET WORLD OF PRO-RUSSIA HACKING GROUP EXPOSED IN LEAK


A UKRAINIAN RESEARCHER REVEALED THE OPERATIONS OF TRICKBOT, ONE OF THE MOST
POWERFUL CYBERCRIMINAL ENTERPRISES WITH ITS CONTI RANSOMWARE, AFTER THE GROUP
DEFENDED RUSSIA; CHATS RANGE FROM HOSPITAL ATTACK PLAN TO HACKERS GROUSING ABOUT
VACATION


Emil Lendof/The Wall Street Journal
By Robert McMillan

, Kevin Poulsen

and Dustin Volz

Mar. 28, 2022 11:21 am ET
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In a secret chat room run by a group of Russian-affiliated cybercriminals, a
hacker expressed excitement about a plan to attack and disable more than 400
U.S. hospitals. “There will be panic,” the hacker wrote, in Russian.

It was 2020, at a severe point in the pandemic, and the gang planned to hold
hostage the computer systems of the hospitals, many of which were fighting to
save Covid-19 patients.

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