A Ukrainian man has been sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $16 million in restitution for his role in infecting thousands of victims with REvil ransomware.
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Yaroslav Vasinksyi, alias Rabotnik, was a member of the infamous cyber crime team and played a part in more than 2,500 ransomware attacks – costing organizations and individuals more than $700 million in extortion payments – according to the US Department of Justice. For those crimes, the 24-year-old was sentenced to 13 years and seven months behind bars.
"By distributing the REvil ransomware variant, the defendant reached out across the globe to extort hundreds of millions of dollars from American victims," Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco explained in a statement.
"But this case shows that the Justice Department's reach is also global – working with our international partners, we are bringing those who target American victims to justice, and we are disrupting the broader cybercrime ecosystem," she added.
