A US court has sentenced Karen Vardanyan, a member of the Ryuk ransomware gang, to two years in prison followed by three years’ of supervised release, and ordered US$1.219 million ($1.7 million) in restitution to victims.
A 35-year-old Armenian national was sentenced to two years in prison for his involvement in a series of Ryuk ransomware attacks while living in Ukraine and Russia in 2019 and 2020, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
