Joe Warminsky reports:
A Canadian court handed down a two-year prison sentence to a man who admitted coordinating ransomware and malware attacks on private citizens, businesses and government agencies.
Matthew Philbert, 33, pleaded guilty in October of last year to charges of fraud and unauthorized access to computers after his arrest in 2021 in Canada. Investigators found more than 1,100 victims total.
At the sentencing on Friday in the Ontario Court of Justice, prosecutors noted that Philbert’s attacks sometimes led to thousands of dollars in fraud, according to the CBC, including one incident in which he stole more than $10,000 from a family-run business.
Read more at The Record.