A 41 year old man, Raymond Udiale, a Nigerian born Microsoft engineer has been reportedly arrested in Florida. He was said to have been working with a UK citizen who would distribute and infect people with Reveton ransomware while Udiale would collect paymentand send them to the English man.

Ransomware is malicious software that locks you out of your computer or your data, and demands money to let you back in. Reveton pretends to be a warning from your country’s national police service, locks you out of your PC, and threatens criminal proceedings within 48 hours – usually for unspecified copyright offences and made victims to pay $200.

The Microsoft engineer allegedly obtained prepaid debit cards and, using the online alias of Mike Roland, would use an unnamed messaging program to send K!NG the account numbers for the prepaid cards.


He would later convert these funds into the Liberty Reserve digital currency and send the proceeds to his UK partner, keeping 30% of the funds, part of his cut.

If found guilty on all charges, he risks a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison, a fine of up to $500,000, and up to three years of supervised release. Uadiale has been set free on a $100,000 bond.




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You work at Microsoft and must have earned quite a substantial amount of money, better off most software engineers in Nigeria, but GREED made you do this in an environment you know you can be nabbed easily if you fail to do a clean job. Now you may end up in jail.