This article has been indexed from CyberCrime & Doing Time
The US government and the White House like to talk tough on Ransomware. If you listen to Joe Biden, fighting Ransomware is a top priority of the US Government. He’s spent time convincing the G7, NATO, and the EU to take pledges about how earnestly they want to fight Ransomware, a judge in Connecticut has decided that spammers who distribute Ransomware should walk free.
Brian Krebs, the journalist behind KrebsOnSecurity, posted a long piece about the travesty of Justice that this case represents => “Levashov Walks. Russian Spam King gets slap on the wrist