An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:
The mastermind behind a ransomware hosting service that allegedly helped criminals collect more than 5,000 bitcoin in ransom from hundreds of victims was indicted in federal court this week, prosecutors announced Thursday. Artur Grabowski’s LolekHosted service operated for about a decade and advertised itself as a haven for “everything but child porn,” according to Florida prosecutors. Clients allegedly used the hosting service to deploy ransomware viruses that infected around 400 networks around the world… [That’s 400 just for the Netwalker ransomware, which the announcement calls “one of the ransomware variants facilitated by LolekHosted.”]
Grabowski was charged with computer fraud, wire fraud, and…
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