UKRAINIAN NATIONAL PLEADS GUILTY TO WIRE FRAUD CONSPIRACY IN CONNECTION WITH CONTI RANSOMWARE

WASHINGTON, June 12 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section issued the following press release:

Following his extradition from Ireland, Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, 44, a Ukrainian national, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a conspiracy to deploy Conti, a ransomware variant that infected more than 1,000 computers and networks worldwide.

"The defendant and his conspirators used the Conti ransomware to terrorize people and businesses in the United States and around the world, causing millions of dollars in damage," said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. "Ransomware continues to pose a threat t...