{"id":6818,"date":"2025-09-11T02:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/us-charges-suspected-ransomware-kingpin-and-offers-10-million-bounty-for-his-capture\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T02:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:03:07","slug":"us-charges-suspected-ransomware-kingpin-and-offers-10-million-bounty-for-his-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/us-charges-suspected-ransomware-kingpin-and-offers-10-million-bounty-for-his-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"US charges suspected ransomware kingpin, and offers $10 million bounty for his capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    US charges suspected ransomware kingpin, and offers $10 million bounty for his capture<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A US federal court has unssealed charges against a Ukrainian national who authorities allege was a key figure behind several strains of ransomware, including LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim. <\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Fortra 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.fortra.com\/blog\/us-charges-suspected-ransomware-kingpin-offers-10-million-bounty\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US charges suspected ransomware kingpin, and offers $10 million bounty for his capture A US federal court has unssealed charges against a Ukrainian national who authorities allege was a key figure behind several strains of ransomware, including LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim. Read more in my article on the Fortra 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":[154,54,155,164,258,1823,1824,1825,231,855],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-6818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-loss","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-malware","category-megacortex","category-nefilim","category-ockergoga","category-ransomware","category-ukraine","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818"}],"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=6818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}