Separately Kaseya has appointed Jason Manar as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in October. Vasinskyi and Polyanin could face sentences of up to 100 years in jail if convicted in the USA. … Polyanin ultimately extorted approximately $13 million from his victims.” He added that: “The Justice Department has seized $6.1 million tied to the ransom proceeds of another alleged REvil ransom where attacker, Russian national Yevgyeniy Polyanin … is alleged to have conducted approximately 3,000 random ransomware attacks. To date REvil ransomware has been deployed on approximately 175,000 computers worldwide, with at least $200 million paid in ransom.”
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Garland said that: “On July 2, the multinational information software company Kaseya and its customers were attacked by one of the most prolific strains of ransomware, known as REvil, or Sodinokibi. We have now requested that he be extradited from Poland to the United States pursuant to the extradition treaty between our countries.” There, upon our request, Polish authorities arrested him pursuant to a provisional arrest warrant. US Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke at a press conference on November 8 and said: “Vasinskyi crossed the border from Ukraine into Poland. Kaseya’s VSA remote monitoring and management tool was used as an attack vector to inject ransomware into the systems of up to 1,500 end-customers of some 30 managed service providers (MSPs) at the start of the USA’s Independence Day weekend on July 2 this year. Ukrainian national Yaroslav Vasinskyi was arrested in Poland on October 8 under a sealed US Justice Department indictment, accusing him of committing the Kaseya ransomware attack in July this year and trying to extort a $70 million ransom.
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