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Ransom Cartel Creator Gets 16 Years in Prison for Operating Ransomware-as-a-Service
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A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service operation he stood up in 2021.
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