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US indicts LockBit ransomware ringleader, offers $10 million reward


He faces up to 185 years in prison.

In a filing on Tuesday, the DOJ claims the 31-year-old Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev helped make LockBit one of “the most prolific and destructive ransomware group[s] in the world.” The ransomware has been linked to the high-profile attacks on the UK’s Royal Mail service, a children’s hospital, and the small Canadian town of St. Marys, Ontario. In February, US and UK law enforcement seized the websites and servers used by LockBit and even obtained the keys they could use to help organizations regain access to their data.

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