It didn’t take long for the White House’s ransomware initiative to be fruitful, as evidenced by the successful international law enforcement efforts targeting members of the Sodinokibi/REvil criminal enterprise. The Department of Justice (DoJ) unsealed two grand jury indictments on November 8, 2021, on individuals associated with the group – Yaroslave Vasinskyi and Yevgeniy Polyanin– both with Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland, accompanied by Deputy US Attorney General Lisa Monaco, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury Wally Adeyemo, shared the news of the arrest of Vasinskyi by Polish authorities at the request of the United States.
