Uncle Sam puts $10M bounty on RedLine dev and Russia-backed cronies

The US government is offering up to $10 million for information on foreign government-backed threat actors linked to the RedLine malware, including its suspected developer, Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov. The State Department, which administers the Rewards for Justice, urges anyone with information on Rudometov, his associates …

[Anonymous Coward]

Wild West

Wild West. With a poster and all the stuff.

[Zolko]

Pegasus

Anyone with information on foreign government linked associates of Rudometov, or their malicious cyber activities, or foreign government-linked use of RedLine malware, should contact Rewards for Justice via the Tor-based tips-reporting channel

that's a strange formulation : what about people using RedLine but without links to some foreign government ? Does this mean that using RedLine is legit if done by the US government ? And are non-state actors allowed to use RedLine ? What's the point on insisting so much on "foreign government-linked " wording ?

[Professor_Iron]

Post-soviet millienials are different

While condemning his deeds, one must also acknowledge that's actually quite an impressive CV for someone born in 1999.