{"id":11617,"date":"2026-03-26T07:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/russian-hacker-sentenced-to-2-years-for-html\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:04:08","slug":"russian-hacker-sentenced-to-2-years-for-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/russian-hacker-sentenced-to-2-years-for-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Hacker Sentenced to 2 Years for TA551 Botnet-Driven Ransomware Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Russian Hacker Sentenced to 2 Years for TA551 Botnet-Driven Ransomware Attacks<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said a Russian national has been sentenced to two years in prison for managing a botnet that was used to launch ransomware attacks against U.S. companies.<br \/>\nIlya Angelov, 40, of Tolyatti, Russia, was also fined $100,000. Angelov, who went by the online aliases &#8220;milan&#8221; and &#8220;okart,&#8221; is said to have co-managed a Russia-based cybercriminal group known as TA551 (aka<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/russian-hacker-sentenced-to-2-years-for.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Hacker Sentenced to 2 Years for TA551 Botnet-Driven Ransomware Attacks The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said a Russian national has been sentenced to two years in prison for managing a botnet that was used to launch ransomware attacks against U.S. companies. Ilya Angelov, 40, of Tolyatti, Russia, was also fined $100,000. Angelov, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-11617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}