{"id":80388,"date":"2023-06-18T14:54:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T11:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=80388"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:42:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:42:36","slug":"in-the-united-states-a-russian-national-has-been-arrested-on-charges-of-distributing-the-lockbit-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/in-the-united-states-a-russian-national-has-been-arrested-on-charges-of-distributing-the-lockbit-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"In the United States, a Russian national has been arrested on charges of distributing the LockBit ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of 20-year-old Russian national Ruslan Astamirov. He has been charged with distributing the LockBit ransomware program.<\/p>\n<p>According to the court filings, the suspect was linked to LockBit attacks in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa from at least August 2020 to March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department noted that Astamirov used various email addresses, IP addresses and other accounts to deploy LockBit and communicate with his victims.<\/p>\n<p>He is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, as well as intentional hacking of protected computers and transmission of ransom demands.<\/p>\n<p>Astamirov faces up to 25 years in prison on the counts.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2022, in Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/arrest-of-lockbit-operator-fifa-cyber-espionage-and-other-cybersecurity-developments\">arrested<\/a> 33-year-old Russian Mikhail Vasilyev on charges of large-scale hacker attacks using LockBit. The United States sought his extradition.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2023, <span data-descr=\"Office of Foreign Assets Control\" class=\"old_tooltip\">OFAC<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/a-vulnerability-in-telegram-a-protracted-incident-at-toyota-and-other-cybersecurity-events\">imposed sanctions<\/a> on Russian national Mikhail Matveev, among others accused of distributing LockBit. He operated under the aliases Wazawaka, Boriselcin and Uhodiransomwar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of the 20-year-old Russian national Ruslan Astamirov. He has been charged with distributing the LockBit ransomware program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1111,26],"class_list":["post-80388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybersecurity","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80390,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80388\/revisions\/80390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}