The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Ukrainian national Volodymyr Viktorovich Tymoshchuk for his role as the administrator of the LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim ransomware operations. Tymoshchuk (also known online as deadforz, Boba, msfv, and farnetwork) is on the most wanted lists of both the EU and the FBI. He has been involved in ransomware attacks that compromised hundreds of companies, resulting in millions of dollars in damages, according to a superseding indictment unsealed today. Between July 2019 and June 2020, Tymoshchuk and his accomplices allegedly breached the networks of over 250 companies across the United States and many more worldwide in LockerGoga and MegaCortex ransomware attacks. However, in many of these incidents, they failed to deploy the ransomware on…