The United States has data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/lockergoga-megacortex-and-nefilim-ransomware-administrator-charged-ransomware-attacks” data-url=”https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/lockergoga-megacortex-and-nefilim-ransomware-administrator-charged-ransomware-attacks” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>placed an $11 million bounty on Volodymyr Tymoshchuk, a Ukrainian man wanted for his involvement with a string of ransomware cybercrimes. Tymoshchuk faces severe federal charges for his part in reportedly masterminding the theft of a combined $18 billion over a three year period.
Tymoshchuk is accused of being the kingpin behind the MegaCortex, LockerGoga, and Nefilim attacks, a string of attacks that were active from Dec. 2018 to Oct. 2021. The MegaCortex attack, which data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/megacortex-ransomware-changes-windows-login-password” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/megacortex-ransomware-changes-windows-login-password”>we covered…
