REvil ransomware scum sentenced to almost 14 years inside, ordered to pay $16 million

A Ukrainian man has been sentenced to almost 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. Yaroslav Vasinksyi, aka Rabotnik, was a member of the notorious cyber crime crew and played a part in more than 2,500 ransomware attacks …

[Pascal Monett]

Why did he go to Poland ?

Was he not aware that Poland is a NATO nation ? Apparently he did not grok that showing up there would place him squarely in the sights of US law enforcement and my, do they enforce.

Well, I'm sure he'll be able to find himself a cushy job when he gets out of jail in five years for good conduct. Or he'll move to Moscow and start his operations again with Putin's blessing.

[Spazturtle]

Re: Why did he go to Poland ?

The Ukrainian police dumped him on the Polish border.

"I'm sure he'll be able to find himself a cushy job "

Nah the era of hiring caught hackers is long over.

[tmTM]

Re: Why did he go to Poland ?

Probably related to the ongoing Russian invasion of his home country.

[xyz123]

Punishment - Details of the time and date for his parole hearing is concealed inside one of the 547 different control panels of Windows 11. He's given just 24hrs to find it and attend....good luck scum!

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder...

Did the bitcoin get returned to the original owners?

[sitta_europea]

Re: I wonder...

There'll be an inquiry. It will report in 2037. Then we'll see.

[VicMortimer]

Re: I wonder...

Hopefully not.

Paying ransom should be a crime. The very least they could do is seize the payment.

[Version 1.0]

Ukraine programming

We had hired a Ukraine programmer for several years prior to the start of the recent 2022 invasion which caused him to disappear, probably killed but we were trying to offer him life in the US before every effort to communicate with him vanished.

Working with him had been very interesting, his old programming abilities were very good (we were working to upgrade our applications that had been written in 1995 to 2002) and it seemed that the programing world in the Ukraine was similar to that in the USA in the late 1990's - so many people just learning to program everything at home and then walking out into the employment world with serious abilities.

I don't see learning to create malware as a serious problem because I did it originally to work out how to protect everything we were doing, I never released my "infections" because all I was doing was just trying to protect our products. Learning to create malware can help you block so much of it.