BROOKLYN, NY – Earlier today, a superseding indictment was unsealed charging Volodymyr Tymoshchuk, also known as “deadforz,” “Boba,” “msfv,” and “farnetwork,” a Ukrainian national, for his role in international ransomware schemes.
Tymoshchuk is not in U.S. custody. Joseph Nocella, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Matthew R. Galeotti, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; Christopher Raia, Assistant Director in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI); and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher J.S. Johnson, Springfield, Illinois Field Office, announced the superseding indictment. “Tymoshchuk is a serial ransomware criminal who targeted blue-chip American companies, health care institutions, and large foreign industrial firms, and threatened to leak their sensitive data online if they refused to pay,” stated United States Attorney Nocella.
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Source: U.S. Department of Justice
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