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 ransom demands in connection with doing so.”
News of Vasiliev’s jail term was first reported by CTV News.
The defendant, who had his home searched by Canadian law enforcement authorities in August and October 2022, is said to have kept a list of “prospective or historical” victims and screenshots of communications exchanged with “LockBitSupp” on the Tox messaging platform.
The raid also uncovered a text file with instructions to deploy LockBit ransomware, the ransomware source code, and a control panel used by the e-crime group to deliver the file-locking malware.
Fonte: https://thehackernews.com/2024/03/lockbit-ransomware-hacker-ordered-to.html