The US Justice Department (DOJ) has announced the indictment of a Russian national, 20-year-old Chech-born Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov, for his involvement in multiple cyberattacks, including the deployment of LockBit ransomware. The attacks targeted computer systems in the U.S., Asia, Europe, and Africa. Astamirov was presented to the court yesterday. LockBit is part of a class of hacking methods and technologies dubbed ransomware as a service (RaaS).