How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

**KrebsOnSecurity profiles Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the alleged leader of the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service operation**, documenting forum aliases (NeroWolfe, Putinkrab, LockBitSupp), evidence from domain/email/phone registrations, his history writing and selling malware in C/C++, and U.S. indictment and Treasury sanctions tied to extensive extortion activity and LockBit’s widespread ransomware campaign.