{"id":7559,"date":"2026-03-25T13:11:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/russian-hacker-sentenced-to-2-years-for-ta551-botnet-driven-ransomware-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:11:48","slug":"russian-hacker-sentenced-to-2-years-for-ta551-botnet-driven-ransomware-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/russian-hacker-sentenced-to-2-years-for-ta551-botnet-driven-ransomware-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Hacker Sentenced to 2 Years for TA551 Botnet-Driven Ransomware Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said a Russian national has been sentenced to two years in prison for managing a botnet that was used to launch ransomware attacks against U.S. companies.<br \/>\nIlya Angelov, 40, of Tolyatti, Russia, was also fined $100,000. Angelov, who went by the online aliases &#8220;milan&#8221; and &#8220;okart,&#8221; is said to have co-managed a Russia-based cybercriminal group known as TA551 (aka\u00a0The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said a Russian national has been sentenced to two years in prison for managing a botnet that was used to launch ransomware attacks against U.S. companies.<br \/>\nIlya Angelov, 40, of Tolyatti, Russia, was also fined $100,000. Angelov, who went by the online aliases &#8220;milan&#8221; and &#8220;okart,&#8221; is said to have co-managed a Russia-based cybercriminal group known as TA551 (aka\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said a Russian national has been sentenced to two years in prison for managing a botnet that was used to launch ransomware attacks against U.S. companies. Ilya Angelov, 40, of Tolyatti, Russia, was also fined $100,000. Angelov, who went by the online aliases &#8220;milan&#8221; and &#8220;okart,&#8221; is said to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/russian-hacker-sentenced-to-2-years-for-ta551-botnet-driven-ransomware-attacks\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian Hacker Sentenced to 2 Years for TA551 Botnet-Driven Ransomware Attacks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}