41 year-old Russian national Maxim Senakh was sentenced to 46 months in prison by a US federal court in Minnesota, after pleading guilty in May for developing and managing a Linux botnet using Ebury malware. Senakh was arrested in 2015 in Finland and extradited to the US to await trial for wire fraud and violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
A Russian-born U.S. citizen has been sentenced to 110 months in prison for running a sophisticated cybercrime operation that involved botnets, stolen financial data and money laundering. Alexander Tverdokhlebov, 29, has been living in Los Angeles. He emigrated from Russia in 2007 and later obtained U.S. citizenship.
One of the leading providers of prison phone services has been recording calls between inmates and their attorneys, according to an anonymous hacker who turned over some 70 million phone records to The Intercept. In an apparent act of “hacktivism,” the hacker reportedly leaked the records out of concern that the provider, Securus Technologies, was violating […]
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