Canada and ICE collaborate to dismantle notorious ransomware group
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Umar Ruhi (English only)
Full Professor, Telfer School of Management
Professor Ruhi’s expertise includes information systems, digital enterprise strategy and cybersecurity management.
"This takedown is necessary, but unfortunately not sufficient. While it dents capacity, history shows us that attackers adapt and pivot infrastructure easily. Coordinated law enforcement needs to treat the money as the center of gravity: pursuing aggressive, cross-border asset freezes while maintaining continuous pressure on affiliate networks. But we must also match this with building up our own resilience, from households to hospitals, so that when criminals pivot, they hit costly dead ends instead of easy targets."
Amir Razavi ( English only)
Part-time Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering
Professor Razavi’s experience includes cybersecurity, and behavioral analysis, with a particular focus on cyber threat intelligence (CTI), data loss prevention (DLP), fraud detection and the prevention and detection of cyberattacks.
“Operation Checkmate’s takedown of BlackSuit/Royal; seizing four servers, nine domains, and ~US$1.09M—targets a gang tied to 450+ U.S. victims and ~US$370M in ransoms; it’s a real win for Canada–U.S. collaboration, and lasting safety now depends on arrests plus basics like rapid patching, offline backups, MFA, and transparent victim reporting.”