Hive and Nefilim affiliate sentenced to 70 months in prison
Original title: Hive and Nefilim Ransomware Affiliate Gets 70 Months In Jail
Artem Stryzhak pleaded guilty in December 2025; the FBI still offers up to $11 million for co-conspirator Volodymyr Tymoshchuk.
A Brooklyn federal court sentenced Ukrainian national Artem Stryzhak to 70 months for ransomware extortion, the Eastern District of New York said. He pleaded guilty in December 2025 to conspiracy to commit fraud, extortion and related computer activity after arrest in Spain in 2024 and extradition in April 2025. As a Nefilim affiliate from June 2021 he deployed customized encryptors and stole data for leak-site pressure, keeping 80 percent of ransoms. He was also an early Hive affiliate; Hive hit about 1,500 victims from June 2021 to January 2023.
- Nefilim administrators took 20 percent of his ransom proceeds.
- His Hive victims included law firms, a dentist and a healthcare provider.
- The FBI supplied a decryption key to one of his Hive victims.
- The State Department reward for Tymoshchuk is up to $11 million.
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Artem Stryzhak gets 70 months in prison for Hive and Nefilim ransomware attacks, while the FBI offers $11 million for his alleged co-conspirator. A federal court in Brooklyn has sentenced Artem Stryzhak, a Ukrainian national, to 70 months in prison for using ransomware to extort millions of dollars from victims. The U.
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