A Russian national has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for aiding a botnet scheme that infected victims’ devices with malicious Kelihos malware and ransomware. Prosecutors: Approximately 200,000 computers in the last four months of that conspiracy, including 50,000 in Connecticut, were infected. Peter Levashov, the operator of the KelihOS botnet, was arrested in September 2019 and has been detained since then. He operated the websites Crypt4U.com, fud.bz and others, which all offered services to hide the malware from antivirus software.”]
Source: https://www.databreachtoday.com/russian-who-aided-kelihos-botnet-receives-4-year-sentence-a-18111