Odaily Planet Daily News Lockbit ransomware developer Rostislav Panev has been extradited to the United States and is currently in custody and awaiting trial. According to the charges of the U.S. Department of Justice, he has been a programmer of the software since 2022 and has accepted cryptocurrency transfers worth about $230,000. With the seizure of the server and the confession of the related parties, Lockbit may be further hit, but the leader of the organization, Dmitry Khoroshev and other key figures are still at large. (News.bitcoin)
Previously, Russian citizen Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov and Mikhail Vasiliev, who has dual Canadian and Russian citizenship, have also been identified as members of the Lockbit organization. They were arrested in 2023 and 2022 and may face up to 25 and 45 years in prison, respectively.