'Prolific' NetWalker extortionist pleads guilty to ransomware charges
him to six years and eight months in prison after hge pleaded guilty to five criminal charges in Ontario's Court of Justice.to the US to face charges related to his involvement with the crime ring.
Vachons-Desjardins' plea agreement identified"victim 1" as a company located in Tampa, Florida, and detailed how, around April 20, 2020, he breached that organization's network security, encrypted files and deployed ransomware before dropping a ransom note indicating that the organization had been compromised by NetWalker.
The note demanded victim 1 pay $300,000 in Bitcoin, and while the organization didn't pay the criminals, it ended up spending about $1.2 million to respond to the attack and restore its operations, according to the court documents. Other victims did pay, however, and the plea deal tied Vachons-Desjardins to the successful extortion of about 1,864 Bitcoin in ransoms, or about $21.5 million, from dozens of companies globally. ®
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