Le Monde reports that Daniil Kasatkin, a 26-year-old professional basketball player who most recently played for the Moscow team MBA-MAI, was arrested at Paris’s Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport on June 21, 2025, following an international arrest warrant issued by the United States. “He’s useless with computers and can’t even install an application,” Bélot told journalists, arguing that his client purchased a second-hand computer that was either already compromised or sold to him by the actual perpetrators as a cover. The malware campaign utilized advanced encryption algorithms to lock victims’ data and demand cryptocurrency payments for decryption keys, a modus operandi characteristic of modern ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operations. Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin, 26, arrested in Paris on June 21, 2025, facing US extradition. This role typically involves sophisticated knowledge of cryptocurrency transactions, digital forensics evasion techniques, and victim psychology to maximize ransom payments while minimizing detection risks.
This Cyber News was published on cybersecuritynews.com. Publication date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:25:17 +0000