Attempts to obtain Western technology and expertise have been professionally planned and organised.
Vachon-Desjardins was arrested in Canada in January 2021 and extradited to the US in March this year
Intelligence services have issued a warning of rising attacks against managed service providers by nation-state actors and other threat groups.
The new ransomware group BlackCat has attacked at least 60 organisations around the world as of last month, says the FBI.
The federal agencies are urging organisations to immediately apply recommended mitigations to secure their machines
Financial services, energy and IT are among the targeted sectors
Allows attackers to distribute second-stage payloads to infected devices
Attackers have been able to steal communications infrastructure plans, weapons deployment schedules, and other sensitive data in a campaign lasting at least two years
Of those, 225 million are new passwords that were not part of the database previously
The cash comes from ransomware payouts to mitigate REvil attacks