A hacker involved in the supply chain attack that targeted IT service provider Kaseya in July 2021 has claimed that he was coerced by the Russian government. Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a former affiliate of the REvil ransomware syndicate known as ‘Rabotnik,’ serves a sentence of over 13 years in US federal prison at the Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury (FCI Danbury), Connecticut. In a six-month conversation with Jon DiMaggio, chief security strategist at Analyst1 and author of the ‘Ransomware Diaries’ series, where he investigates the ransomware ecosystem, Vasinskyi revealed he tried to leave REvil several times for “moral” reasons but was blackmailed into preparing the Kaseya attack before leaving. Vasinskyi claimed REvil has ties with the Russian government and that the people who…