CybersecurityUpdated November 4

Ryan James Roach arraigned after extradition in university crypto-mining case.

CyberScoop identifies Ryan James Roach as the Canadian extradited to the United States on October 28 and reports that he was arraigned Tuesday. Roach and Mathiew James Stubbings were indicted in April 2022. Prosecutors allege the two compromised networks at at least four universities between mid-2016 and late 2019 and used university computing resources to mine cryptocurrency. CyberScoop reported that prosecutors were still seeking Stubbings’s extradition.

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