The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity – Week 19

The Good | Courts Sentence Karakurt Ransomware Negotiator & Two DPRK IT Worker Scheme Facilitators Federal authorities have successfully secured a nearly nine-year prison sentence for Deniss Zolotarjovs, a Latvian national extradited to the U.S. for his critical role in the Karakurt extortion syndicate . Operating as a specialized “cold case” negotiator, Zolotarjovs ( aka Sforza_cesarini) systematically targeted victims who had previously stopped communications with the extortion group to avoid