Security News > 2024 > March > LockBit Ransomware Hacker Ordered to Pay $860,000 After Guilty Plea in Canada
2024-03-14 13:47
A 34-year-old Russian-Canadian national has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail in Canada for his participation in the LockBit global ransomware operation. Mikhail Vasiliev, an Ontario resident, was originally arrested in November 2022 and charged by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) with "conspiring with others to intentionally damage protected computers and to transmit
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