Topic: guilty plea
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Ukrainian pleads guilty in Conti ransomware case
Ukrainian national Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in the Conti ransomware operation, which targeted over 1,000 victims globally and collected more than $150 million in Bitcoin ransom payments between 2021 and 2022. Lytvynenko admitte...
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Ransomware Negotiator Confesses to Aiding Attacks
Angelo Martino, a former ransomware negotiator, pleaded guilty to conspiring with the BlackCat/ALPHV group, using his position at DigitalMint to secretly provide attackers with confidential client data like insurance limits. Martino and two co-conspirators, who also had cybersecurity backgrounds,...
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Scattered Spider Hacker Admits $8M Crypto Theft
Tyler Robert Buchanan, a member of the Scattered Spider hacking group, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for his role in a scheme that defrauded American victims of over $8 million in cryptocurrency. The group used SMS phishing (smishing) to trick emp...
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Russian Hacker Gets 81 Months for Aiding Ransomware Gangs
Aleksei Volkov, a Russian national, was sentenced to 81 months in U.S. prison for his role as an initial access broker, facilitating ransomware attacks that caused over $9 million in confirmed losses. Volkov specialized in exploiting network vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to corporat...
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Jordanian hacker admits selling access to 50 corporate networks
A Jordanian cybercriminal, Feras Khalil Ahmad Albashiti, pleaded guilty to selling unauthorized network access to dozens of companies, acting as an **initial access broker** for ransomware and data theft groups. His arrest followed a sting operation where he sold access to an undercover officer a...
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Gamer pleads guilty to threatening Epic Games employees
Jayden Griffin, a 19-year-old from South Dakota, pleaded guilty to sending death threats to Epic Games employees in late 2024, facing up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He admitted in court that he intended the threats to be perceived as genuine and reversed his initial not-guilty pl...
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