Alan M. Ralsky, the Godfather of Spam, was sentenced to 51 months in prison for long term involvement in pump and dump schemes. Hundreds of U.S. organizations on Thursday received emails purporting to come from the Democratic National Committee, in a new politically charged Emotet spear-phishing attack. Amid an uptick in attacks on healthcare orgs, malware families, Kegtap, Singlemalt and Winekey are being used to deliver the Ryuk ransomware to already strained systems.
Source: https://threatpost.com/spammer-gets-over-4-year-sentence-112409/73160/