Valeri Aleksejev, 32, is the first of the seven individuals to enter a plea in the DNS Changer scam. He faces up to 25 years in prison, deportation and the forfeiture of $7 million. The scam had several components, including a click-hijacking fraud in which Malware was delivered to victims’ PCs when they visited specially crafted websites or when they downloaded phony video codec software. The other six individuals have been named as Anton Ivanov, Vladimir Tsastsin, Timur Gerassimenko, Dmitri Jegorov, Konstantin Poltev and Andrey Taame.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/02/dns-changer-malware-mastermind-pleaded.html