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Ukrainian national Oleksii Lytvynenko took part in attacks against hundreds of organisations and helped develop the tools used by the gang, whose victims paid more than $150 million in ransoms.

Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko had, by most accounts, a fairly ordinary legal career in Ukraine before he switched to writing malware. A US federal court sentenced the 44-year-old to four years in prison this week for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the Justice Department announced, tied to his role in Conti, the ransomware operation blamed for…

A federal court in the United States sentenced Ukrainian national Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko to four years in prison on September 11, 2026, closing out one of the longer-running international cases tied to the Conti ransomware operation. Lytvynenko, 44, pleaded guilty in June 2026 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his work as both an…

Ukrainian national Oleksii Lytvynenko has received a four-year US prison sentence for his role in Conti, the ransomware operation linked to more than $150 million in victim payments.

A 44-year-old Ukrainian national was sentenced to four years in prison for his long-running participation in Conti, a ransomware group that attacked more than 1,000 organizations globally before it disbanded in 2022, the Justice Department said Thursday.