Arrest Made On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced the indictment of Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, a Canadian national who is suspected of working as a NetWalker affiliate and helping to conduct a ransomware attack against a victim in Florida. Vachon-Desjardins is alleged to have made $27.6 million from infecting victims with the NetWalker ransomware. Vachon-Desjardins has been charged with intentional damage to a protected computer, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison, the federal indictment notes. Bulgarian authorities have seized the servers used to support the darknet sites used by NetWalker ransomware affiliates to provide payment instructions and communicate with victims, according to the Justice Department.