U.S. Sentences Russian For Malware ‘Crypting’ Services (RFE RL)

Russian national Oleg Koshkin has been sentenced to four years in prison for operating a “crypting” service that helped hackers infect computers around the world with malware, the U.S. Justice Department announced on December 9.

Koshkin, 41 and formerly of Estonia, reportedly operated websites that offered to make intrusive software like botnets, remote-access trojans, keyloggers, credential stealers, and cryptocurrency miners virtually undetectable.

U.S. Sentences Russian For Malware ‘Crypting’ Services (rferl.org)

Marco Emanuele
Marco Emanuele è appassionato di cultura della complessità, cultura della tecnologia e relazioni internazionali. Approfondisce il pensiero di Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. Marco ha insegnato Evoluzione della Democrazia e Totalitarismi, è l’editor di The Global Eye e scrive per The Science of Where Magazine. Marco Emanuele is passionate about complexity culture, technology culture and international relations. He delves into the thought of Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. He has taught Evolution of Democracy and Totalitarianisms. Marco is editor of The Global Eye and writes for The Science of Where Magazine.

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