The 51-year-old dual Russian and Israeli national, which is supposed to be the developer of the ransom group Lockbit Ransomware, was issued in the US, almost three months after he was officially charged with the electronic crimes scheme.
Rostislav was previously arrested in Israel in August 2024. He is like saying Invested In law enforcement.
“Rastislav Panev’s extradition to New Jersey district makes it clear: if you are a member of the Lockbit Conspiracy, the United States will find you and lead to justice,” ” -” ” – Note US Prosecutor John Jordan.
Lockbit has grown to become one of the most prolific ransom groups, striking more than 2500 legal entities in at least 120 countries. Almost 1800 of them were in the US.
The victims consisted of persons and small enterprises for transnational corporations, including hospitals, schools, non -profit organizations, critical infrastructure and state and law enforcement agencies.
CyberCrime Sprey Syndicate has thrown at least $ 500 million, which led to the victims of billions of dollars in the form of lost income and expenses from responding to the incident and recovery.
The upside, in the role of the LockBit developer, was responsible for the development and maintenance of the locker base, earning about $ 230,000 between June 2022 to February 2024.
“Among the work, which he admitted that he completed the LockBit group, was the development of the code to disable antivirus software; to deploy malicious programs on several computers connected to the victim network; and for printing a scaffolding lockbit for all printers connected to the victim network,” said the Ministry of Justice.
“Panev also admitted that he wrote and supported Code Code Flockbit and in providing technical guidelines to the Lockbit Group”.
In addition to the Volus, six other members of the castle, Mikhail Vasiliev, Ruslan Astamirov, Arthur Songatov, Ivan Gennadievich Kondratiev, Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev and Dmitry Yuri were also Harashev. constituent As an administrator lockbit by going on the Internet -Pedony Lockbitsupp.
In addition, Harashev, Matveev, Sangatov and Kondratiev were sanctioned by the Department of the Ministry of Finance for foreign assets (ofac) for their roles in the launch of cyber -napades.
