🇬🇧 Dmitry Khoroshev is a developer of the LockBit ransomware encryptor, not the leader of the group.

Dmitry Khoroshev (putinkrab) wrote the LockBit cryptolocker and sold it for $7,500, his original post is shown in the screenshot. Later, he provided support for this locker (he was part of the LockBit gang as a developer/coder).

He did not have the ambition or the capability to be a leader, but he got himself deeply involved in this dirty business. At the same time, he did not receive a share of the profits and had no voice in strategic decisions.

However, evidence indicates that he was connected offline with the LockBit leader, Dementiev. At the very beginning, Khoroshev also posted messages on forums under the name LockBit, but the LockBitSupp account has been used - and continues to be used - by only one person: Evgeniy Dementiev.

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