ARMENIA JAILS RUSSIAN COMPUTER VIRUS ‘MASTERMIND’
Phys.Org
May 22 2012
A court in Armenia on Tuesday gave a four-year jail sentence to the
alleged Russian mastermind behind a computer virus crime group which
infected some 30 million computers worldwide.
Hacker Georgiy Avanesov was convicted of computer sabotage, Armenian
prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Sonia Truzian told AFP.
“According to the evidence presented to the court, Avanesov, using a
Botnet computer system which he created himself, committed DDOS attacks
on sites of different individual and legal entities and IP addresses
and disrupted the normal functioning of these sites,” Truzian said.
Avanesov was arrested at Yerevan airport in 2010 after the server n
etwork in the Netherlands used by the hacker group accused of being
responsible for the notorious Bredolab virus was dismantled.
Investigators said at the time they had busted a network that used the
servers in the Netherlands to infect at least 30 million computers
worldwide with a virus that allowed criminals to obtain information
like bank passwords.
The network was capable of infecting three million computers a month
and was sending an estimated 3.6 billion virus emails to users daily
by the end of 2009, the investigators said.
From: A. Papazian
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