“The court granted the request of the investigation to elect a measure of restraint in respect of Mikhail Golovachuk in the form of detention,” she said.

Earlier, the FSB reported that the activities of the hacker group REvil were stopped in Russia.

The basis for the search activities was the appeal of the competent US authorities, who spoke about the leader of the REvil community and his involvement in encroachments on the information resources of foreign companies.

After that, the court arrested two hackers suspected of spreading the ransomware virus for two months.