A federal court in the Southern District of Indiana sentenced Russian citizen Aleksei Volkov to 81 months in prison. He served as an "Initial Access Broker" providing ransomware gangs with enterprise network breach entry points and assisted in multiple attacks, causing over $9 million in actual losses in the United States. The court also ordered him to pay approximately $9.2 million in restitution to victims and to forfeit related criminal equipment. Law enforcement documents show that the gangs involved collected ransoms in cryptocurrency during the attacks. (Decrypt)