This week, a Russian citizen suspected of laundering cryptocurrencies received from the victims of cyber attacks was extracted from the Netherlands in the United States, Voice of America reports with reference to the press release of the US Department of Justice.
29-year-old Denis Dubnikov already appeared before the federal court in Portland, where he was charged. The trial with the participation of jury will begin on October 4.
According to court materials, Dubnikov and his accomplices laundered income received from the victims of attacks with the use of carrier programs both in the United States and abroad. Prosecutors, in particular, reported that Dubnikov was engaged in washing the ransom received from the victims of the Ryuk Ryuk program.
After receiving the ransom of oak and his accomplices, as well as other participants in the scheme, allegedly performed various financial transactions, trying to hide the character, source, location and other information about the redemption. In July 2019 alone, the accused, according to the prosecutor’s office, washed over 400 thousand dollars received from the Ryuk victims. In general, the participants in the scheme washed at least $ 70 million.
If the guilty of Dubnikov is recognized, maximum punishment in the form of 20 years in prison.
RYUK is a type of car program program that, when launched on a computer or on a network, encrypts files and tries to delete all backups of the system. The victims of the program were thousands of individuals and legal entities around the world. American law enforcement officers called Ryuk “a direct and growing threat in the field of cybercrime for hospitals and suppliers of medical services in the United States.”