Four individuals from Eastern Europe face 20 years in prison for Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) charges. The bulletproof hosting service was founded by Russian citizens Aleksandr Grichishkin and Andrei Skvortsov. The service provided multiple cybercrime-affiliated clients with the infrastructure needed in malicious campaigns running between 2008 and 2015. The group rented IP addresses, servers, and domains to cybercriminal clients, who used this infrastructure to disseminate malware used to gain access to victims computers, form botnets, and steal banking credentials for use in frauds.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bulletproof-hosting-admins-plead-guilty-to-running-cybercrime-safe-haven/