{"id":229350,"date":"2026-01-20T01:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/black-basta-ransomware-leader-added-to-eu-most-wanted-and-interpol-red-notice"},"modified":"2026-01-20T01:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:31:15","slug":"black-basta-ransomware-leader-added-to-eu-most-wanted-and-interpol-red-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/black-basta-ransomware-leader-added-to-eu-most-wanted-and-interpol-red-notice","title":{"rendered":"Black Basta Ransomware Leader Added to EU Most Wanted and INTERPOL Red Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/black-basta-ransomware-leader-added-to-eu-most-wanted-and-interpol-red-notice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian and German law enforcement authorities have <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberpolice.gov.ua\/news\/naczpolicziya-vykryla-chleniv-mizhnarodnogo-xakerskogo-ugrupovannya-ta-identyfikuvala-jogo-organizatora-6407\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">identified<\/a> two Ukrainians suspected of working for the Russia-linked ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group Black Basta.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the group\u2019s alleged leader, a 35-year-old Russian national named Oleg Evgenievich Nefedov (\u041d\u0435\u0444\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432 \u041e\u043b\u0435\u0433 \u0415\u0432\u0433\u0435\u043d\u044c\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0447), has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bka.de\/DE\/IhreSicherheit\/Fahndungen\/Personen\/BekanntePersonen\/BlackBasta\/Sachverhalt.html?nn=26874#sprachversionen261512\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">added<\/a> to the European Union\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/eumostwanted.eu\/#\/nefedov-oleg-evgenievich\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Most Wanted<\/a> and INTERPOL\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interpol.int\/How-we-work\/Notices\/Red-Notices\/View-Red-Notices#2025-100086\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Notice<\/a> lists, authorities noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the investigation, the suspects specialized in technical hacking of protected systems and were involved in preparing cyberattacks using ransomware,\u201d the Cyber Police of Ukraine said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian and German law enforcement authorities have identified two Ukrainians suspected of working for the Russia-linked ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group Black Basta. In addition, the group\u2019s alleged leader, a 35-year-old Russian national named Oleg Evgenievich Nefedov (\u041d\u0435\u0444\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432 \u041e\u043b\u0435\u0433 \u0415\u0432\u0433\u0435\u043d\u044c\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0447), has been added to the European Union\u2019s Most Wanted and INTERPOL\u2019s Red Notice lists, authorities noted. \u201cAccording [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}