LockBit administrator sentenced to almost four years in prison after guilty plea

An administrator for the LockBit ransomware gang has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges in a Canadian court last month. Mikhail Vasiliev, a 34-year-old Canadian-Russian dual national, has been in legal peril since he was first arrested in October 2022 at his home in Bradford, Ontario, as

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