On May 1, the Northern District Court of Texas sentenced Ukrainian hacker Yaroslav Vasynskyi to 13 years and 7 months in prison for cybercrimes and extortion in the amount of $700 million.
This was reported by the press service of the US Ministry of Justice.
According to court records, 24-year-old Vasynskyi was a member of the Revil hacker group and participated in more than 2 500 ransomware attacks.
Together with accomplices, they hacked thousands of computers around the world and demanded a ransom for not disclosing the victimsʼ personal data.
Vasynskyi was arrested in Poland in October 2021. In March 2022, he was extradited to the United States. The hacker pleaded guilty to 11 counts, including conspiracy to defraud and related activities, damaging protected computers and conspiracy to launder money.
- In March 2021, Revil encrypted the files of the Acer company and demanded to pay $50 million in Monero cryptocurrency, in April the group attacked the Apple supplier. In June, JBS, the largest meat processing company in the world, became a victim of Revil, which paid hackers a ransom of $11 million in bitcoins. In July, Revil hacked Kaseya, demanding $50 million.
- At the end of October, it became known that American special services with the support of a "foreign partner" hacked the servers of the hacker group Revil, which is associated with the Kremlin. It disappeared from the darknet in July, but it was not known who exactly hacked it. After the hack, the hackers were forced to stop their activities.