UK law enforcement and international partners have released new details about the cybercriminal gang Evil Corp, including its use of the Lockbit ransomware platform and ties to Russian intelligence.

It has already been established that the now-disbanded Conti and Trickbot groups had close relationships with Russian intelligence, carrying out tasks related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and in 2017 two FSB officers were indicted for ordering the 2014 attacks on half a billion Yahoo user accounts.

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) says it can now reveal the gang’s notorious leader, Maksim Yakubets, has been supported by his father Viktor Yakubets - something he had denied when interviewed by the BBC in 2021.