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Bank Info Security 2 years, 4 months ago

Canada Sentences LockBit Hacker Mikhail Vasiliev to 4 Years

Dual Canadian-Russian National Also Agrees to US ExtraditionLockBit ransomware affiliate Mikhail Vasiliev on Tuesday received a nearly four-year prison sentence in Canada and consented to extradition to the United States, where he faces charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. He must also pay CA$860,000 in restitution to his Canadian victims.

A 26-year-old Ukrainian man is awaiting extradition to the United States on charges that he acted as a core developer for Raccoon, a "malware-as-a-service" offering that helped paying customers steal passwords and financial data from millions of cybercrime victims. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the defendant was busted in March 2022, after fleeing mandatory military service in Ukraine in the weeks following the Russian invasion.