French Police Arrest Russian Basketball Player Accused Of Ransomware: Report

French authorities person arrested a Russian master hoops subordinate who is accused of being a personnel of a ransomware gang, according to newswire Agence France-Presse. 

Daniil Kasatkin plays for MBA Moscow, a squad that is portion of nan VTB United League, which comprises mostly Russian clubs arsenic good arsenic 1 squad from Belarus and Kazakhstan. Kasatkin concisely played for Penn State during nan 2018-2019 season. 

The AFP reported that U.S. authorities judge Kasatkin moonlit arsenic a ransomware hacker. Kasatkin was arrested astatine Charles de Gaulle Airport successful Paris connected June 21.

Kasatkin’s lawyer Frederic Belot told nan AFP that his customer is innocent.

“He bought a utilized computer. He did perfectly thing wrong. He’s shocked,” Belot told AFP.

“He’s useless pinch computers. He can’t moreover instal an app. He didn’t touch thing connected this computer. It was either hacked, aliases sold to him by a hacker who wanted to walk himself disconnected arsenic personification else.”