{"id":5292,"date":"2025-07-12T02:06:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/12\/russian-basketball-player-arrested-in-ransomware-case-despite-being-useless-with-computers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T02:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:06:35","slug":"russian-basketball-player-arrested-in-ransomware-case-despite-being-useless-with-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/12\/russian-basketball-player-arrested-in-ransomware-case-despite-being-useless-with-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian basketball player arrested in ransomware case despite being \u201cuseless with computers\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Russian basketball player arrested in ransomware case despite being \u201cuseless with computers\u201d<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A Russian professional basketball player has been arrested for allegedly acting as a negotiator for a ransomware gang&#8230; and despite his lawyer claiming he&#8217;s &#8220;useless&#8221; with computers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/russian-basketball-player-arrested-in-ransomware-case-despite-being-useless-with-computers\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian basketball player arrested in ransomware case despite being \u201cuseless with computers\u201d A Russian professional basketball player has been arrested for allegedly acting as a negotiator for a ransomware gang&#8230; and despite his lawyer claiming he&#8217;s &#8220;useless&#8221; with computers. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Graham Cluley Go to grahamcluley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1556,979,54,155,164,231,317],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-5292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-france","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-ransomware","category-russia","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292"}],"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=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}