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Armenian national gets 24 months for role in Ryuk ransomware attacks

Karen Serobovich Vardanyan, 35, was sentenced to 24 months in prison and three years of supervised release for breaching U.S. corporate networks and deploying Ryuk ransomware between March 2019 and June 2020. He pleaded guilty in July after being extradited from Kyiv following an April 2025 arrest, with prosecutors saying he and co-conspirators collected roughly 1,610 bitcoins in ransom payments, worth over $15 million at the time, from victims including a Michigan company, a Texas school and an Oregon technology firm.

bleepingcomputer.com · 2026-09-23

Ukrainian national gets 4-year sentence for role in Conti ransomware operation

Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, 44, was sentenced to four years in prison for participating in the Conti ransomware conspiracy as an intruder and malware developer. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, admitting he controlled stolen data from 12 victim companies, sent extortion notes, and coded a loader tool used to launch attacks between 2020 and 2022. He was arrested in Ireland in 2023 and extradited to the U.S. to face charges.

bleepingcomputer.com · 2026-09-11