Russian National arrested and charged with conspiring to commit LockBit ransomware attacks against U.S. interests.

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The Justice Department has announced charges against a Russian citizen, Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov (АСТАМИРОВ, Руслан Магомедовичь), 20 years old, from the Chechen Republic. Astamirov has been charged for his involvement in deploying numerous cyberattacks, including LockBit ransomware, against computer systems in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Africa.

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