Armenian national pleads guilty to Ryuk ransomware attacks

This feed reports a cluster of high-impact cybercrime and national-security developments: an Armenian national, Karen Vardanyan, pleaded guilty to Ryuk ransomware attacks and agreed to roughly $1.2M restitution (faces up to 15 years); CISA published a forensic report after a major May credential leak detailing remediation, improved researcher reporting and protections for sensitive materials; former DigitalMint negotiator Angelo Martino was sentenced to 70 months for feeding ransomware actors confidential victim information and enabling $75.3M extortion; Interpol’s Operation First Light led to