LockBit affiliate arrested
A Russian national was arrested and charged in June for his role as an affiliate of the LockBit Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) group. Ruslan Astamirov is accused of at least five attacks between 2020 and early 2023 against victims across the globe, including in the United States. He faces charges of conspiring to commit wire fraud and conspiring to intentionally damage protected computers and to transmit ransom demands, and faces up to a maximum of 25 years in prison. This second LockBit arrest in six months prompted the U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger for the District of New Jersey to say; “The LockBit conspirators and any other ransomware perpetrators cannot hide behind imagined online anonymity. We will continue to work tirelessly with all our law enforcement partners to identify ransomware perpetrators and bring them to justice.”
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