Russia says it dismantled REvil hacking group at US request

Russia’s security service says it has shut down the ransomware criminal group known as REvil at the request of the United States.
It arrested several members of the group.
REvil was behind the hacking of the Colonial Pipeline, the largest oil pipeline in the US, last year.
Al Jazeera’s @John Hendren reports from Chicago, US.

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