Iranian Man Faces Decades in Prison after Ransomware Attacks on US Municipalities

An Iranian national pleaded guilty this week to participating in an international extortion scheme involving the Robbinhood ransomware.

37-year-old Sina Gholinejad, also known as Sina Ghaaf, allegedly worked as part of the Robinhood ransomware operation, compromising the computer networks of cities, corporations, health care organizations, and other entities around the United States

Together with several unnamed co-conspirators, Ghaaf encrypted files on the victim networks with and extorted ra