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And there are no others for the bot
In the United States, it was charged with eight points to a Russian citizen Peter Levashov, who is suspected of hacking thousands of computers for the theft of personal data of users. This was reported by the press service of the US Ministry of Justice.
"The large jury of the Federal Court in the city of Bridgport, Connecticut, issued an indictment to a Russian citizen on eight points related to numerous crimes in connection with the alleged control of the Kelihos botnet - a global network of thousands of infected computers, which he, approved, used to carry out harmful actions, including collecting data for entering the system, The mass newsletter of spam messages, as well as the installation of "Monitoring Programs" and other malware, "the report said.
It is noted that the 36-year-old Peter Levashov, also known as Peter North and Sergey Astakhov, charged with episodes of intentional causing damage to the secure computer, obtaining access to secure computers as a result of fraudulent actions, fraud using electronic communications, and threats for damage to the secure computer, and the survival of personal data with inhabitants circumstances, criminal conspiracy, as well as two facts of fraud with e -mail.
The investigation is conducted by the FBI units of New Hayven and Anchorija. The accusation is supported by US prosecutor's assistants Vanessa Richards and David Juan. At the same time, the message does not mention Levashov’s connection with cyber attacks on the American electoral system.
The US Ministry of Justice will seek Levashov's extradition from Spain.
On April 7, the Spanish police detained Levashov in a rented apartment in Barcelona, where he was resting with his family. As his wife Maria told RT, the police explained that the arrest was connected with hacker attacks in order to influence the elections in the United States.
On Friday, the federal court in Seattlesentenced to 27 years in prison of the accused of cyber abundance of Roman Seleznev, the son of a State Duma deputy from the LDPR Valery Seleznev. On July 5, 2014, Seleznev Jr. was arrested by American agents at the airport of the Maldives of the Male. He was accused of cyber abundance and embezzlement of data from bank details. The US prosecutor's office said that the secret agents of the secret service, when arrested, seized a laptop from Seleznev with more than 2 million stolen data of credit cards. The indictment included, however, only 1.7 million numbers.
In January, a declassified version of the report prepared by the CIA, the FBI and the NSA was posted on the website of the apparatus of the US National Intelligence. It states that Russia's interference in the course of the presidential campaign in the United States was undertaken by the personal instructions of Vladimir Putin. Barack Obama and Donald Trump were familiar with the full version of the report.
In cyber attacks on the servers of the National Committee of the Democratic Party, American intelligence accuses GRU. It was this structure, stated in the report, published the stolen correspondence of the functionaries of the Democratic Party through the Guccifer 2.0 hacker, as well as on the sites of DCleaks.com and Wikileaks.