The UK has sanctioned 16 members of the notorious Russian hacking group Evil Corp, exposing their links to the prolific LockBit ransomware group

The NCA has named and shamed a prominent member of the Evil Corp cyber crime collective who also worked as an affiliate of the LockBit ransomware gang as the UK unveils new sanctions against 16 Russian cyber criminals.

Evil Corp has been in operation for more than a decade and is believed to have strong relationships the Russian state.

It has already been established that the now-disbanded Conti and Trickbot groups had close relationships with Russian intelligence, carrying out tasks related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and in 2017 two FSB officers were indicted for ordering the 2014 attacks on half a billion Yahoo user accounts.

A tight-knit family of hackers and intelligence operatives was the driving force behind Russia's "Evil Corp" cybercrime syndicate, sanctions leveled by London, Washington and Canberra have revealed. Once considered the "most significant cybercrime threat in the world",