The Ukrainian person blamed two separate malware schemes including a cybercate at the Vermont Medical Center in 2020, which, according to the US Justice Department, temporarily shut down some of its important services and paid it a cost of millions of dollars.
Vyacheslav Igorvich Penchukov, also known as 37 -year -old Vycheslav Igorvich Andrev, convicted a count on Thursday in the federal court in Nebraska, for a count of conspiracy to break a count of conspiracy to break the anti -American law and a count of conspiracy to fraud.
Records in the case are sealed, so Penchukov’s lawyer’s name was not known immediately on Friday.
Penchukov was accused of helping to lead a raccizing enterprise and conspiracy to infect thousands of commercial computers with malicious software that begins in May 2009, and later led a conspiracy with new malware from at least November 2018, as of February 2021, according to federal prosecution.
The Department of Justice said that other suspected software such as ransonware was allowed to reach infected computers, which took place in October 2020 at the University of Warmont Medical Center.
A hospital official said in 2021 that the price of the attack is an estimated $ 50 million, mostly in lost revenue, while the Department of Justice damaged the loss to $ 30 million.
The Department of Justice said in a statement, “The attack left the medical center unable to provide several important patient services for more than two weeks, causing the risk of death or severe physical injury to the patients.”
According to the prosecutors, the cyber criminal also used malicious software to get the required account details, passwords, personal identity numbers and other information required to log into online banking accounts.
The US Department of Justice said that they then misrepresented to banks that they were employees of victims and were authorized by accounts, resulting in millions of dollars in deficit.
Penchukov was a fugitive in the most desired list of FBI’s cyber before being arrested in Switzerland in 2022 and extradited in the United States the following year.
On May 9, he has to face a prison of up to 20 years on each count.