securityweek.comarticleCanadian Extradited to US Over Cryptomining Hacks on University Supercomputers
Ryan James Roach and Mathiew James Stubbings are charged in New York with hacking university supercomputers from June 2016 to December 2019 to mine Electroneum. Victims were in New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Tennessee. The pair used fraudulent identities for multi-country VPS infrastructure that held malware, mining software and stolen credentials. Roach was extradited on 28 October 2026; Stubbings' extradition is pending.
TL;DR Canadian man extradited to the US over a 2016-2019 campaign that hijacked university supercomputers to mine Electroneum.
Organisations named here
- DOJ
Technologies named here
- Electroneum
- University supercomputers (academic institutions in New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Tennessee)
Techniques named here
- Cryptojacking
- Fraudulent-identity virtual private server infrastructure
- Network reconnaissance and access expansion
- Use of compromised machines as pivot points
Concepts named here
- Extradition
- Statutory penalties
Threat actors named here
- Mathiew James Stubbings
- Ryan James Roach
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