Conti Hacker Who Built Malware and Attacked Victims Gets Four-Year Sentence
Brief
Ukrainian lawyer and Conti malware developer Oleksii Lytvynenko was sentenced to four years in U. S. prison for ransomware attacks.
Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko had, by most accounts, a fairly ordinary legal career in Ukraine before he switched to writing malware. A US federal court sentenced the 44-year-old to four years in prison this week for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the Justice Department announced, tied to his role in Conti , the ransomware operation blamed for infecting over 1,000 organizations worldwide.
“Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, 44, a Ukrainian national, was sentenced today to four years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a conspiracy to deploy Conti, a ransomware variant that infected the computers of more than 1,000 victims worldwide.” reads the announcement by DoJ.