81-month sentence for Russian hacker behind major ransomware campaigns

**Executive Summary:** Aleksei Olegovich Volkov was sentenced to 81 months in prison after pleading guilty to acting as an initial access broker for ransomware groups including Yanluowang, facilitating dozens of attacks against U.S. organizations that resulted in over $9 million in actual losses and over $24 million in intended losses; he admitted to hacking networks, enabling ransomware deployment and data extortion, agreed to pay $9.1M in restitution, and forfeited equipment used in the crimes.