Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab

KrebsOnSecurity roundup of active, high-impact cyber threats and mitigations: German authorities identified and doxed Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin (alias “UNKN”), alleged leader of GandCrab and REvil. A financially motivated group unleashed “CanisterWorm,” a cloud-spreading worm/wiper targeting systems using Iran time zone or Farsi locale and combining theft/extortion with destructive wiping. U.S., Canadian and German authorities disrupted infrastructure for four massive IoT botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that had compromised >3 million devices and facilitated record DDoS attacks;