{"id":8405,"date":"2025-11-13T02:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/russian-hacker-admits-helping-yanluowang-ransomware-infect-companies\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:05:04","slug":"russian-hacker-admits-helping-yanluowang-ransomware-infect-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/russian-hacker-admits-helping-yanluowang-ransomware-infect-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian hacker admits helping Yanluowang ransomware infect companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Russian hacker admits helping Yanluowang ransomware infect companies<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 hacker accused of helping ransomware gangs break into businesses across the United States is set to plead guilty, according to recently filed federal court documents.<\/p>\n<p>25-year-old Aleksey Olegovich Volkov worked as an &#8220;initial access broker&#8221;, a cybercriminal specialist who focuses on the earliest stage of an attack: gaining the first foothold inside a victim&#8217;s network.<\/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-hacker-admits-helping-yanluowang-ransomware-infect-companies\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian hacker admits helping Yanluowang ransomware infect companies A Russian hacker accused of helping ransomware gangs break into businesses across the United States is set to plead guilty, according to recently filed federal court documents. 25-year-old Aleksey Olegovich Volkov worked as an &#8220;initial access broker&#8221;, a cybercriminal specialist who focuses on the earliest stage of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,155,164,258,231],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-8405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-malware","category-ransomware","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405"}],"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=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}