First cybercrime conviction in Russia?
Three Russians were sentenced to 8 years of hard time for extortion in connection with denial of service attacks.
Anna from Kaspersky told me in June that there was a Russian law that could be used against cybercrime, but that it hadn’t been used so far. That mirrors what they said in their blog yesterday. This is a very important sentence, even if the sentencing reflected the extortion more than the cybercrime.
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