{"id":10970,"date":"2026-02-27T02:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/notorious-ransomware-gang-allegedly-blackmailed-by-fake-fsb-officer\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T02:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:04:25","slug":"notorious-ransomware-gang-allegedly-blackmailed-by-fake-fsb-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/notorious-ransomware-gang-allegedly-blackmailed-by-fake-fsb-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Notorious ransomware gang allegedly blackmailed by fake FSB officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Notorious ransomware gang allegedly blackmailed by fake FSB officer<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>There is a certain poetic justice in a cybersecurity-related story that has emerged from Moscow this week: A man has been accused of trying to extort money&#8230; from a notorious Russian ransomware gang.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/ransomware-gang-blackmailed-fake-fsb-officer\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notorious ransomware gang allegedly blackmailed by fake FSB officer There is a certain poetic justice in a cybersecurity-related story that has emerged from Moscow this week: A man has been accused of trying to extort money&#8230; from a notorious Russian ransomware gang. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Graham Cluley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259,2317,54,155,164,231,317],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-10970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conti","category-fsb","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-ransomware","category-russia","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}