U.S. Government Scores Legal Victories in Prosecution of Russian Botnet Hackers

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Friday, April 7, 2017
Author: 
Jacob Rasch
Volume: 
33
Issue: 
4
Abstract: 
The month of March 2017 produced guilty pleas for the U.S. government in its prosecution of two Russian nationals for their roles in unrelated cybercrime schemes. Both schemes involved the use of a botnet – a common scheme among hackers in which the hackers fraudulently access a network of computers in order to utilize them in an en masse action.