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Malware Operator Who Tried to Send Heroin to Brian Krebs Gets 41 Months in Prison

Sergey Vovnenko, 31, was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in distribution of the Zeus malware and for selling online the personal data he stole from infected victims. He was arrested in June 2014 in Naples, Italy, after a joint operation by the US Secret Service and Italian law enforcement. The court also sentenced the crook to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $83,368 in restitution for the damage he caused. He and his acolytes managed a Zeus botnet that infected over 13,000 computers.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-operator-who-tried-to-send-heroin-to-brian-krebs-gets-41-months-in-prison/

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