{"raw_record_id":"8c63252a-7b77-4d10-b85d-e25a36924a2e","external_id":"member:OJ:L_202601714:20","record_hash":"7f3828b886f7ff5e28cd231d9a512235e564dc7f76d32d47be159b925c8f092b","raw_record":{"gender":"male","source":"EUR-Lex","aliases":["Виталий Николаевич КОВАЛЕВ","Bentley","Bergen","Alex Konor","Benny","Ben","Stern"],"reasons":["Vitaly Kovalev is a senior figure in the malware programs “Trickbot” and “Conti”. He is also known by the online monikers “Bentley”, “Bergen”, “Alex Konor”, “Benny”, “Ben” and “Stern”.","Conti and Trickbot were originally created and developed by Wizard Spider. Wizard Spider has conducted ransomware campaigns in a variety of sectors, including essential services such as health and banking, has infected computers worldwide and their malware has been developed into a highly modular malware suite. Campaigns by Wizard Spider, using malware such as Conti, and TrickBot, are responsible for substantial economic damage in the European Union.","Vitaly Kovalev is therefore responsible for, and involved in, cyber-attacks with a significant effect which constitute an external threat to the Union or its Member States."],"legal_act":{"oj_id":"202601714","title":"COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2026/1714 of 13 July 2026 implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/796 concerning restrictive measures against cyber-attacks threatening the Union or its Member States","eli_url":"https://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2026/1714/oj","celex_id":"32026R1714","annex_ref":"Annex I","fetch_url":"https://publications.europa.eu/resource/cellar/0af0ff54-7e9c-11f1-bf5e-01aa75ed71a1.0006.03/DOC_1","act_number":"2026/1714","base_celex":"32019R0796","regime_name":"Cyber-attacks","program_code":"EU-2019-796","declared_rows":12,"expected_rows":12,"reviewed_rows":[["20","person","Vitaly Nikolayevich KOVALEV","2026-07-13"],["21","person","Alexander Alexandrovich VOLOSOVIK","2026-07-13"],["22","person","Denis Olegovich DEGTYARENKO","2026-07-13"],["23","person","Yuliya Vladimirovna PANKRATOVA","2026-07-13"],["24","person","Maksim Evgenevich VORONIN","2026-07-13"],["25","person","Maksim Aleksandrovich GORDIENKO","2026-07-13"],["26","person","Evgeniy Viktorovich BASHEV","2026-07-13"],["27","person","Roman Alexandrovich PUNTUS","2026-07-13"],["8","organization","Media Land LLC","2026-07-13"],["9","organization","ML.Cloud","2026-07-13"],["10","organization","“Impuls” LLC","2026-07-13"],["11","organization","Z-Pentest","2026-07-13"]],"amendment_date":"2026-07-13","structural_rows":12},"birth_date":"1988-06-23","name_lines":["Vitaly Nikolayevich KOVALEV"],"row_number":"20","birth_date_text":"23.6.1988","date_designated":"2026-07-13","identifying_information":["Виталий Николаевич КОВАЛЕВ","Aliases: “Bentley”, “Bergen”, “Alex Konor”, “Benny”, “Ben”, “Stern”","DOB: 23.6.1988","Address: Serebristy Bulvar 34 (Serebristyy Bul’var); krp 1; flt 528; 197341; St Petersburg, Russian Federation","Nationality: Russian","Gender: male","Associated entities: TrickBot, Wizard Spider, Conti"]},"snapshot_id":"d421331e-4429-477e-a87b-ff77544c14c0","snapshot_sha256":"af02c34e281c67119fa7bcf03bc22943154f5a195c1b987f6c1f63a11b6bbb60","fetched_at":"2026-10-16T09:04:48.283866+00:00","source_name":"EUR-Lex","source_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/","document_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L_202601714"}