Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom have imposed sanctions against the Russian cybercriminal Alexander Ermakov responsible for hacking Medibank – the first trilateral sanctions against a Russian hacker.
Sanctions lists have collected data about that cybercriminal.
Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov had been born on 16.05.1990. Nowadays, he is also known as GustaveDore; aiiis_ermak; blade_runner and JimJones.
In October 2022, Aleksandr Ermakov hacked the Medibank network, one of Australia’s largest private health insurers, covering over 3.9 million people with over 4,000 employees, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said in a statement.
During the attack, Aleksandr Ermakov stole Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and sensitive health information linked to approximately 9.7 million customers and authorized representatives.
Aleksandr Ermakov and the other actors are believed to be linked to the Russia-backed cybercrime gang Revil (Ransomware Evil, also known as Sodinokibi). REvil was among the most notorious cybercrime gangs in the world until July 2021 when they disappeared.
