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Kat Wong

Australia unmasks, bans prolific Russian cybercriminal

The leader of one of the world's most infamous cybercrime organisations has been named and sanctioned by Australia, the UK and the US.

Russian citizen Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev was identified as having held a senior leadership role at LockBit, a group that provides ransomware to bad actors.

A joint campaign between the UK, the US and Australia found Mr Khoroshev had hidden behind the "LockBitSupp" alias since the group's inception about September 2019 and acted as its developer and administrator until May.

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