US Extradites REvil Ransomware Member To Stand Trial For Kaseya Attack (bleepingcomputer.com) 14
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that alleged REvil ransomware affiliate, Yaroslav Vasinskyi, was extradited to the United States last week to stand trial for the Kaseya cyberattack. BleepingComputer reports: Vasinkyi, a 22-year-old Ukrainian national, was arrested in November 2021 while entering Poland for his cybercrime activities as a REvil member. Vasinkyi is believed to be a REvil ransomware affiliate tasked to breach corporate networks worldwide, steal unencrypted data, and then encrypt all of the devices on the network. Shortly after Vasinkyi was arrested, the DOJ announced that he was responsible for the ransomware attack against Kaseya, a managed services provider, impacting thousands of companies worldwide.
"In the alleged attack against Kaseya, Vasinskyi caused the deployment of malicious Sodinokibi/REvil code throughout a Kaseya product that caused the Kaseya production functionality to deploy REvil ransomware to "endpoints" on Kaseya customer networks," explained the U.S. DoJ announcement. "After the remote access to Kaseya endpoints was established, the ransomware was executed on those computers, which resulted in the encryption of data on computers of organizations around the world that used Kaseya software." Vasinskyi is facing the following charges: conspiracy to commit fraud and related activity in connection with computers; intentional damage to protected computers; and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
"If convicted for all counts, Vasinskyi will be sentenced to a total of 115 years in prison," adds BleepingComputer. "Additionally, he will also forfeit all property and financial assets."
"In the alleged attack against Kaseya, Vasinskyi caused the deployment of malicious Sodinokibi/REvil code throughout a Kaseya product that caused the Kaseya production functionality to deploy REvil ransomware to "endpoints" on Kaseya customer networks," explained the U.S. DoJ announcement. "After the remote access to Kaseya endpoints was established, the ransomware was executed on those computers, which resulted in the encryption of data on computers of organizations around the world that used Kaseya software." Vasinskyi is facing the following charges: conspiracy to commit fraud and related activity in connection with computers; intentional damage to protected computers; and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
"If convicted for all counts, Vasinskyi will be sentenced to a total of 115 years in prison," adds BleepingComputer. "Additionally, he will also forfeit all property and financial assets."
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> Send him to Ukraine to be used as a human shield.
>> Vasinkyi, a 22-year-old Ukrainian national
For which side?
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For which side?
Whichever side is taking fire.
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The vast vast majority of Ukrainians are for Ukraine, even the Russian speakers.
I want to see maximum retribution (Score:2)
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you reap what you sew just the same. so if you don't want to get run over cross and the green not in between.
Guilty until proven innocent (Score:2)
do svidaniya (Score:2)
Enjoy your time in federal pound me in the ass prison. Hope you get one of those private prisons that makes you a debtor too.
On my other monitor (Score:2)
there's a local story about a guy getting 25 years for armed bank robbery who had already been in jail for murder in the 90s.
Ransomware is evil, but has this kid been tied to deaths?
The charges that Vasinskyi is facing now for his actions are the following:
Conspiracy to commit fraud and related activity in connection with computers
Intentional damage to protected computers
Conspiracy to commit money laundering
If convicted for all counts, Vasinskyi will be sentenced to a total of 115 years in prison. Additionally, he will also forfeit all property and financial assets.
It doesn't sound like it. They fucked over some MSPs ... But 115 years is fair? WTF?
Re: On my other monitor (Score:2)
The problem is with the scaleability of this kind of crime. This gang has demanded hundreds of millions from thousands of victims. This is pretty serious crime. If there should be should be a change then it should be to see serious violent crime punished far more harshly.
Anyway, this guy is likely going to get a plea deal to reduce his sentence. Prosecutors and the media live to toss around these wild sentences for their own reasons.
Half of the equation. (Score:2)
Great, you caught a bad guy that exploited this terrible software. When are they indicting the company that pushed out this terrible software?