NetWalker affiliate Vachon-Desjardins agrees to plead guilty in Florida court
Joe Tidy reports:
An ex-Canadian government IT worker has admitted to being a high-level hacker with a Russian cyber-crime group.
Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, from Quebec, Canada, has agreed to plead guilty in a Florida court.
The 34-year-old was affiliated to the NetWalker ransomware crew, which has attacked companies, municipalities, hospitals, schools and universities.
When he was arrested, police discovered he was in possession of $27m (£22.2m) in Bitcoin.
Read more at BBC.
Vachon-Desjardins was extradited to the U.S. in March after being sentenced in Canada to 7 years in prison there.