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A foreign national has admitted his central role in ransomware attacks that disrupted businesses across the United States.<\/p>\n

The defendant, extradited from abroad, entered the plea in federal court on charges of conspiracy and computer fraud, says<\/a>\u00a0the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors link him directly to the Ryuk ransomware strain used in operations against U.S. companies during 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n

Authorities describe the scheme as a coordinated effort that encrypted victim systems and demanded payments for decryption keys.<\/p>\n

\u201cVardanyan worked with his co-conspirators to attack a company in Michigan that paid 200 bitcoin or over $1.1 million at the time of payment to restore access to their network. They also attacked a company in Wilsonville, Oregon, and in February 2020 attacked a school in Texas. <\/em><\/p>\n

Vardanyan and his co-conspirators illegally accessed computer networks of victim companies and deployed ransomware on hundreds of compromised servers and workstations. Vardanyan and his co-conspirators are alleged to have received approximately 1,610 bitcoins in ransom payments from the victim companies, which was valued at over $15 million at the time of payment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The guilty plea resolves the case without a trial and highlights ongoing international efforts to hold ransomware operators accountable.<\/a><\/p>\n

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