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Ransom Cartel creator sentenced to 16 years in prison

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Maksim Silnikau participated in cybercrime since at least 2005. He ran Ransom Cartel from 2021 until his arrest in 2023. A figure walking with a glowing trail of binary code emanating from a case, symbolizing stolen data.

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