By Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day | June 1, 2019 -- 09:22 GMT (02:22 PDT) | Topic: Security

"In the forum message, the GandCrab authors bragged about the ransomware having earned over $2 billion in ransom payments, with the operators making roughly $2.5 million per week and $150 million per year. It goes without saying that these numbers should be taken with a grain of salt.

"We successfully cashed this money and legalized it in various spheres of white business both in real life and on the Internet," the GandCrab crew bragged.

"We are leaving for a well-deserved retirement," they said. "We have proved that by doing evil deeds, retribution does not come." Quote from Zdnet:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/gandcrab-ransomware-operation-says-it...