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Russia sentences REvil ransomware members to over 4 years in prison
2024-10-25 18:58

Russia has sentenced four members of the REvil ransomware operation to over 4 years in prison for distributing malware and illegal circulation of means of payment. [...]

Prison just got rougher as band of heinously violent cybercrims sentenced to lengthy stints
2024-09-16 12:15

Orchestrators of abductions, torture, crypto thefts, and more get their comeuppance One cybercriminal of the most violent kind will spend his best years behind bars, as will 11 of his thug pals...

Russian who sold 300,000 stolen credentials gets 40 months in prison
2024-08-14 23:11

​Georgy Kavzharadze, a 27-year-old Russian national, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for selling login credentials for over 300,000 accounts on Slilpp, the largest online marketplace of...

Nigerian who hacked Texas retirement fund gets 12 years in prison
2024-08-13 16:42

42-year-old Nigerian national Bamidele Omotosho has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for his role in a series of cyber scams that resulted in millions of dollars in losses for...

Tech support scam ring leader gets 7 years in prison, $6M fine
2024-08-01 20:13

The leader of a tech support fraud scheme was sentenced to seven years in prison after tricking at least 6,500 victims and generating more than $6 million. [...]

Wikileaks' Julian Assange Released from U.K. Prison, Heads to Australia
2024-06-25 05:03

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed in the U.K. and has departed the country after serving more than five years in a maximum security prison at Belmarsh for what was described by the...

Laundering cash from healthcare, romance scams lands US man in prison for a decade
2024-05-22 18:00

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Dutch Court Sentences Tornado Cash Co-Founder to 5 Years in Prison for Money Laundering
2024-05-15 08:28

A Dutch court on Tuesday sentenced one of the co-founders of the now-sanctioned Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer service to 5 years and 4 months in prison. While the name of the...

CEO who sold fake Cisco devices to US military gets 6 years in prison
2024-05-02 22:01

Onur Aksoy, the CEO of a group of companies controlling multiple online storefronts, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for selling $100 million worth of counterfeit Cisco network equipment to government, health, education, and military organizations worldwide. These devices all had "Counterfeit Cisco labels, stickers, boxes, documentation, and packaging, all bearing counterfeit trademarks registered and owned by Cisco that made the goods falsely appear to be new, genuine, and high-quality devices manufactured and authorized by Cisco."

REvil hacker behind Kaseya ransomware attack gets 13 years in prison
2024-05-02 14:44

Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a Ukrainian national, was sentenced to 13 years and seven months in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution for his involvement in the REvil ransomware operation. Law enforcement linked the long-term REvil affiliate to the Kaseya supply-chain ransomware attacks, which impacted over 1,500 companies worldwide.