Russian Hacker Infects 50,000 Computers With Kelihos Botnet
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| Russian Hacker Infects 50,000 Computers With Kelihos Botnet |
St. Petersburg, 38-year-old Peter Yurich Levskov of Russia, on Wednesday, in the United States of Connecticut. Federal court convicted for computer crime, wire fraud, conspiracy and identity theft charges. Leaveshov, who also went through many online nicknames, including Peter Saver, Petr Levashov, Petr Saver and Sergey Azhakhov, has admitted to operating several boats including the Hurricane, Waldak and Kellihos Bonets by the end of the decade of 1990 until they were released in April 2017. Was not arrested in. Kelihos Bonet, back in 2010, was a global network of thousands of infected computers used to steal login credentials, send bulk spam emails and infect computers with ransomware and other malware.
Russian hacker infect 50,000 computers with Kelihos Botnet Hurricanes and Waldak Bonnet also shared the Kellihos code, but Kelihos was the most notorious Bonnet of all the people infecting more than 50,000 computers worldwide. In a press release, DoJ said in a press release: "Levashov controlled and operated several botettes including Storm, Waldak and Kelihos Botnet to harvest personal information and means of identification (including email address, user name and log in and password) from infected computers.
Done All three botanets have generated hundreds of millions of dollars for cyber criminals. As Hacker News has previously stated, Levashov has also been listed among the top 10 worst spammers in the world made by anti-spam group Spammahs, who gave him 7th place in the list at that time. Initially it was speculated that Livashov was involved in the US election hacking in 2016, after his arrest in Spain last year the DOJ prosecution was ignored, it was clarified that the suspect was involved in the Kelihoset Bonnet and He was arrested due to spamming targets to force him. To buy useless stock. In 2017, Levashov was arrested in Barcelona, where he was discharging with his family after the United States issued an international arrest warrant against him.
Right after the arrest, the federal authorities closed the Kellihoset Bonnet. Although Russia had filed an extradition request in September last year, the Spanish authorities extradited Levashov at the request of the United States in February 2018. Since Levyshov had worked for Vladimir Putin's United Russia party for ten years at the time of the first arrest, he feared that US officials have alleged that he would be tortured for information about American political work. Levashov on Wednesday, at Hartford, Connecticut. The District Court blamed for a total of four counting, as follows: 1 count to deliberately damage the protected computer 1 count of conspiracies Enhanced Identity Theft 1 Count 1 count of wire fraud Levashov will be sentenced on September 6, 2019, and will remain in custody until this date. Have something to say about this article? Comment below on Facebook, Twitter or our Linkedin Group or share it. share ShareTweetShareSharecomments Sponsored
