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Created: 2025-07-18 13:29:00 UTC

NEW: 🇺🇸 DoJ charges Karen Serobovich Vardanyan, a 33-year-old Armenian extradited from 🇺🇦 Ukraine, for a Ryuk ransomware campaign. She allegedly extorted XXXXX BTC ($15M) from US companies by encrypting their data and demanding Bitcoin ransoms for decryption keys.

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