Federal prosecutors have indicted a man living in Yemen who they believe to be the mastermind behind the Black Kingdom ransomware. The individual, Rami Khaled Ahmed, is accused of developing the ransomware, and then infecting around 1,500 computer systems with it. The infested systems were in the U.S. as well as other countries. Ahmed has been charged with conspiracy, intentional damage to a protected computer, and threatening damage to a protected computer. The Black Kingdom ransomware exploited a Microsoft Exchange vulnerability and then encrypted data from a victim’s computer network. 

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