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May 3, 2024 – 10:14 p.m
One of the key figures of the Ukrainian hacker group REVil, which travels in ransomware, 24-year-old Yaroslav Vasynskyi, who was charged by the US Department of Justice, received a serious sentence in the United States. Wednesday’s statement were sentenced to 13 years and 7 months in prison and fined more than $16 million. Vashinsky was involved in roughly 2,500 ransomware attacks and demanded roughly $700 million from his victims, reports the Techspot.
The Ukrainian hacker and his colleagues did not leave things to chance, with the ransomware they not only encrypted the data stored on the victim’s computer, but also stole some of it. With this, they were able to blackmail them doubly, because if they said they wouldn’t pay, they threatened to publish their sensitive data.
The man he managed to capture it in October 2021, on the Ukrainian-Polish border to the FBI in cooperation with its international partners and was released to America in March 2022. The man pleaded guilty to eleven charges in Dallas. Last year, the Department of Justice received the final installment of the extorted money, including this one
- nearly 40 bitcoins—which is currently worth nearly $2.5 million—
- and $6.1 million in cash paid to Wasinski and an associate.
In January 2022, before the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Russian authorities announced that they struck a cybercriminal group called REvil, and 14 members were detained. REvil also conducted two major attacks in 2021, at the end of May the world’s largest meat processing company, brazil JBS-t attacked, and in July the cloud IT management software called Kaseyaand hundreds of companies worldwide were infected with ransomware through the distribution chain.
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