Russian crypto exchange exec pleads guilty to laundering Ryuk ransomware funds

A Russian man pleaded guilty on Monday in an Oregon court on charges related to laundering funds for the Ryuk ransomware group. 

Denis Dubnikov was arrested in November 2021 in the Netherlands before being extradited to the U.S. last August. Prosecutors accused him, along with 13 co-conspirators whose names were redacted in a federal indictment, of laundering the proceeds of Ryuk ransomware attacks during a three-year period beginning in 2018. 

Ryuk ransomware first appeared in August 2018, and for several …

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