The DoJ says Berezhnoy and Glebov were the operators of the “8Base” and “Affiliate 2803” platforms, both deploying the Phobos ransomware strain in attacks.

But their focus wasn’t on Mars. It was on its moon, Phobos; named after the Greek God of fear. After all, if NASA could land on Mars, landing on one of its moons should be easy, right?

An international operation has dealt a major blow to a cybergang known as 8Base, which used the Phobos ransomware to infect hundreds of companies and organizations. On Tuesday, Europol announced ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Four Russian nationals, who were suspected of deploying a variant of Phobos ransomware to extort payments from people in Europe and beyond, were arrested last week, the pan ...

Law enforcement has seized the dark web leak site of 8Base, a prominent ransomware group, and arrested four alleged members of the related Phobos operation in Thailand. On February 10, 2025, the data ...

Four Russian nationals, who were suspected of deploying a variant of Phobos ransomware to extort payments from people in Europe and beyond, were arrested last week, the pan-European police agency ...