Swiss court sentences 52-year-old Ukrainian ransomware dev to nearly 13 years in the cooler
The man allegedly wrote the code that powered the Lockergoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim operations
A Swiss court has sentenced a 52-year-old Ukrainian ransomware developer to 12 years and nine months in prison for his role in attacks on companies including Stadler Rail.
Zurich District Court found that the man developed LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim, but was not the mastermind behind the operations. He also received a ten-year ban from Switzerland. The judgment is not final and can be appealed.
He had been held in pretrial detention since October 2021 and consistently denied knowing that his software was being used for criminal purposes.
He said the source code found at his home in Basel-Landschaft came from his consulting work for an unidentified IT security client.
The court rejected that explanation because extortion messages were also found among his data, SWI reported.
The ransomware developer was also found guilty of playing a...
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