Security News > 2022 > March > Alleged REvil suspect extradited on ransomware spree charges
A Ukrainian national alleged to be a member of the REvil ransomware gang has been extradited to the US and charged with multiple criminal offences.
According to the unsealed complaint, prosecutors say he co-authored the Sodinokibi ransomware variant, as deployed by the infamous REvil crew.
So far there is no fresh news about Vasinskyi's co-accused, Russian national Yevgeniy Polyanin, 28, also alleged to be part of the REvil gang.
Russia itself arrested 14 members of REvil in mid-January, a month before its invasion of Ukraine and heavy sanctioning by the West.
At the time, onlookers attributed the move to personal pleas made by US president Joe Biden to Russian leader Vladimir Putin last year.
While the outcome of federal trials in the US is almost always a conviction - the country's prosecutors boast of a 99 per cent conviction rate at trial, bolstered by widely condemned plea-bargaining tactics - if Vasinskyi truly is a member of REvil and co-authored Sodinokibi, few tears will be shed on his behalf.