According to Russian news sources, each of the three extortionists who had aimed botnet-derived DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks at targeted businesses, received eight year jail sentences.
Russian security company Kaspersky writes:
Yesterday a full stop was placed to one of the most notorious cases of cybercrime in Russia over the past few years.
Kaspersky Lab didn’t take part in this case, although of course we followed it with interest.
