South Korea authorities work with Interpol to arrest alleged cyber-attackers

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South Korea said it’s asked Interpol for help to arrest two foreigners it alleges played a leading role in cyber-attacks and large-scale extortion that targeted the South Korean and US companies. 9News

The Korean Police Agency said it has received domestic arrest warrants and requested Interpol to issue a “red notice” for the two suspects in an effort to bring them to South Korea.

The suspect was among six people detained by Ukrainian police in June, when South Korean and US authorities joined in raids on the homes of suspects affiliated with the Clop ransomware syndicate in Kyiv and elsewhere. The most potent ransomware gangs operate with Kremlin tolerance, based out of reach of Western law enforcement.A South Korea police statement said the suspects detained in Ukraine in June allegedly collaborated with a hacking organisation and laundered the virtual currency they obtained through the ransomware and converted them for cash.

South Korea is now looking to extradite what it says are the two suspects of that group who played a leading role in the cyber-attacks, said Choi Jongsang, chief of cyber crime investigation division at the Korea police agency.A Ukraine law doesn’t allow local criminal suspects to be extradited to a foreign country and the legal status and whereabouts of one of the suspects isn’t known, Mr Jongsang said.

 

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