DOJ charges Russian with developing and operating LockBit ransomware

Leading light in group responsible for for 25% of global ransomware attacks last year faces up to 185 years in prison.

“We have unmasked the man behind LockBitSupp”, said Acting US Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri as charges against Dimitry Yuryevich Khoroshev (Дмитрий Юрьевич Хорошев ), 31, were unveiled.

Khoroshev is the latest person to be charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in connection with the infamous ransomware group LockBit. Known as the “the most

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