BenderGermany Doxes "UNKN," Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/germany-doxes-unkn-head-of-ru-ransomware-gangs-revil-gandcrab/
Feels odd for an infosec blog to use 'doxxing' this way. Doxxing is generally considered to be unethical exposure of personal information.
Identifying a criminal is ethical.
>Identifying a criminal is ethical.
This outsourcing of one's morals to the state is excessive even by already high western white collar internet standards.
Now, make no mistake, these guys are up to no good and probably should be identified and prosecuted, but to just declare that a bad thing is now good because government is doing it is basically an abdication of one's moral compass. At best this is still a bad thing but a necessary one because all the other options are worse. Like shooting someone in self defense, or putting someone in a cage for doing sufficiently bad things.
Edit: I'll admit I played too loose with ethics vs morality here, but still the point stands.
ethics and morality are not interchangeable are they?
anyway individuals willingly give to teh state some autonomy in return for the safety of governance... that's the social contract free people have with government
"doxxing" a Russian ransomware group is the kind thing to do. bombing them out of existence is within the remit of the range of ideas a government could resort to...
Not disagreeing with your preface but I was under the impression that while it took governments some time to figure things out, kinetic bombing in retaliation for cyberwarfare was pretty much ruled out unless the cyberwarfare results in direct mass casualties (for example cyber sabotaging a refinery results in an explosion which results in casualties.). Else we’d have bombed North Korea, China, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, etc.