Investigators Identify Qilin Ransomware Admin

Cybersecurity researchers identified the administrator of the Qilin ransomware group as 36-year-old Aleksey Mikhailovich Yakovtsev from St. Petersburg. The group claims at least 365 victim organizations in the past three months alone. Investigators linked the handle Haise to an email found in a gosuslugi.ru breach exposing more than 20 million records.