The US Department of Justice announced the confessions of two citizens of the Russian Federation and two immigrants from Estonia and Lithuania. They pleaded guilty to the spread of computer viruses and cyber attacks on American financial institutions and citizens.
In the period from 2008 to 2015. immigrants from Russia and the Baltic republics were engaged in the provision of services on the so-called. Bulletproof hosting used by cybercriminals.
The American Ministry of Justice named the names of the accused: Russians Andrei Skvortsov and Alexander Grichishkin, a native of Lithuania Alexander Skorodumov, a native of Estonia Pavel Stassi. Their case was handled by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation with the participation of law enforcement agencies in the UK, Germany and Estonia.
According to American law, the maximum punishment that hackers from Eastern Europe can face is 20 years in prison. The accused will be sentenced on June 3 – Stassi, June 29 – Skorodumov, July 8 – Grichishkin, September 16 – Skvortsov.
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