The Justice Department on Sept. 9 unsealed a 2024 indictment of Ukrainian hacker Volodymyr Viktorovych Tymoshchuk for his alleged role in exploiting hundreds of companies via ransomware schemes.
Tymoshchuk is alleged to be the administrator of the LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim ransomware schemes that affected more than 250 U.S. companies and hundreds more in other countries, causing millions in damage.
“Tymoshchuk is a serial ransomware criminal who targeted blue-chip American companies, health care institutions, and large foreign industrial firms, and threatened to leak their sensitive data online if they refused to pay,” Eastern District of New York U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. said in a press release….