{"id":11140,"date":"2022-02-08T21:14:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T21:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/08\/canadian-ransomware-criminal-jailed-for-nearly-7-years-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T21:14:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T21:14:06","slug":"canadian-ransomware-criminal-jailed-for-nearly-7-years-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/08\/canadian-ransomware-criminal-jailed-for-nearly-7-years-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian ransomware criminal jailed for nearly 7 years \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Canadian who used the Netwalker ransomware to attack 17 organisations and had C$30m (US$23.6m) in cash and Bitcoin when police raided his house has been jailed for more than six years.<\/p>\n

Sebastien Vachons-Desjardins of Gatineau, Ottawa, was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison earlier this month after pleading guilty to five criminal charges in Ontario’s Court of Justice.<\/p>\n

“The Defendant excelled at what he did,” sniffed Justice Paul Renwick in a sentencing note published on Canadian court document repository CanLII<\/a>. “Between 10-15 unknown individuals hired the Defendant to teach them his methods. Some of these activities benefitted those interested in securing computer networks from these types of attacks. Some of the Defendant’s students were likely other cyber threat actors.”<\/p>\n

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