Maksim Yakubets and his Evil Corp gang have for years lived the archetypal Russian hacker playboy lifestyle seemingly untouchable to law enforcement, but today's announcement shows that we are still watching, digging and determined to disrupt them and bring them to justice.
The information has been released as part of a large, multinational operation to disrupt Evil Corp and another notorious hacking group called LockBit.
The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) says it can now reveal the gang's notorious leader, Maksim Yakubets, has been supported by his father Viktor Yakubets - something he had denied when interviewed by the BBC in 2021.
Other Russian individuals, including Yakubets' brother Artem, were also named as part of the US sanctions and designations.
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