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Tech News
International law enforcement agencies coordinated an operation to dismantle a ransomware group known as KillSec, which is linked to roughly 500 victims worldwide over the past two years. Investigators have identified the suspected mastermind behind the operation as a 16-year-old.
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.