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On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced it had extradited 28-year-old Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev(Гліб Олександрович Іванов-Толпінтцев, Чернівці, Західна Украіна) to face trial in the US for carrying out the hacking crimes. Ivanov-Tolpintsev allegedly operated a botnet, a collection of computers that were secretly taken over through malware. The various machines were then used to guess login passwords belonging to users across the globe.

The extradition occurs as the US has been stepping up efforts to crack down on ransomware, which has been increasingly terrorizing businesses, schools, hospitals, and even critical infrastructure. Ivanov-Tolpintsev was originally arrested last October in Poland before he was extradited to the US. He faces a maximum penalty of 17 years in prison.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/ukrainian-cyber-criminal-extradited-decrypting-credentials-thousands-computers-across