GandCrab authors stop working: they claim they stole enough

Last Friday a message appeared on one of the closed hacker forums about the closure of RaaS (Ransomware-as-a-Service) of the GandCrab service:

We personally earned more than 150 million dollars per year. We successfully cashed this money and legalized it in various spheres of white business both in real life and on the Internet.

After almost a year and a half since the advent of the GandCrab malware, its creators decided to close down their business and gave instructions to partners (adverts) to stop the spread of Malvari, since decryption keys will no longer be provided.

All the good things come to an end.

For the year of working with us, people have earned more than $ 2 billion, we have become a nominal name in the field of the underground in the direction of crypto-fiber. Earnings with us per week averaged $ 2,500,000.

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The authors of the extortionist placed in the signature quotes of antivirus vendors about their software:

Ransomware crew has been in business for a couple of minutes, earned an impressive $ 600,000. Kaspersky

GandCrab is the most prominent ransomware of 2018. By the numbers this is a huge Check Point

The third most prevalent ransomware family. Microsoft

GandCrab has already been made of 50K cases worldwide, Europol

GandCrab appeared quite recently - January 28, 2018. The extortionist replaced such infamous cryptographers as TeslaCrypt, CryptoWall and Spora, and became one of the leading extortionists. Despite the found flaws in encryption, the authors promptly released new versions - the current branch v. five.

We are leaving for a well-deserved retirement. We have proven that there is no retribution for committing evil deeds. We proved that in a year you can earn money for a lifetime. We have proved that it is possible to become number one not in our own words, but in recognition of other people.

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I think that many victims will not agree with such a "rainbow" picture, which the attackers presented, and retaliation will be inevitable.

And the “hot heads” who want to participate in something similar will remind you of the existence of 273 articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (and similar ones).