Ukrainian Nefilim and Hive affiliate sentenced to 70 months
Original title: Ukrainian National Sentenced for Role in Hacking Hospitals, Businesses, and Governments as Part of Ransomware Conspiracies Causing Over $100 Million in Losses
Artem Stryzhak, 36, pleaded guilty in December 2025 after extradition from Spain; co-conspirator Tymoshchuk remains sought.
The U.S. Justice Department said Artem Stryzhak was sentenced to 70 months for conspiracy tied to Nefilim and Hive ransomware attacks on hospitals, governments, law firms, and other businesses. From about June 2021 he operated as a Nefilim affiliate, paying administrators including Volodymyr Tymoshchuk 20 percent of ransoms, and separately deployed Hive against seven victims. Prosecutors said Hive conspirators hit about 1,500 victims worldwide from June 2021 to January 2023 and that the groups caused more than $100 million in losses. He was arrested in Spain in June 2024 and extradited in April 2025.
- A June 2021 Nefilim attack stole data from an oil and gas transportation company.
- Hive victims included law firms, a dentist office, and a healthcare provider during COVID-19.
- One hospital had to treat patients without digital systems and could not accept new patients.
- The FBI supplied a decryption key to one of Stryzhak’s Hive victims.
- He pleaded guilty to two computer-fraud conspiracy counts.
Impact: Encrypted systems and stolen data; more than $100 million in losses
- Organizations
- U.S. Department of JusticeFBI
- Countries
- UkraineUnited StatesSpain
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6 min read at databreaches.netA press release from the U. S. Department of Justice: Artem Stryzhak, 36, a Ukrainian national, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for conspiracy to commit computer fraud in connection with a series of ransomware attacks that targeted hospitals, government entities, law firms, and other businesses around the world.
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