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Russian Cybercrime Boss Burkov Pleads Guilty

January 27, 2020 admin aleksei burkov, aqua, cardplanet, directconnection, evil corp., Haaretz, k0pa, maksim viktorovich yakubets, naama issachar, Ne'er-Do-Well News, the times of israel, Vladimir Putin

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:21:46 +0000

Aleksei Burkov, an ultra-connected Russian hacker once described as “an asset of supreme importance” to Moscow, has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to running a site that sold stolen payment card data and to administering a highly secretive crime forum that counted among its members some of the most elite Russian cybercrooks.

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Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS

January 14, 2019 admin bbc, Cellcom, Daniel Kaye, ddos, ddos-for-hire, GovRAT, Haaretz, Lonestar, Martin Gottesfeld, Mirai, National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 19:37:32 +0000

Seldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received a whopping 10-year prison sentence for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a number of hospitals in 2014. Also last week, a 30-year-old in the United Kingdom was sentenced to 32 months in jail for using an army of hacked devices to crash large portions of Liberia’s Internet access in 2016.