Igor Litvak

April 24, 2017

The Backstory Behind Carder Kingpin Roman Seleznev’s Record 27 Year Prison Sentence

This post was originally published on this siteRoman Seleznev, a 32-year-old Russian cybercriminal and prolific credit card thief, was sentenced Friday to 27 years in federal prison. That is a record punishment for hacking violations in the United States and by all accounts one designed to send a message to criminal hackers everywhere. But a close review of the case suggests that Seleznev’s record sentence was severe in large part because the evidence against him was substantial and yet he declined to cooperate with prosecutors prior to his trial. The Maldives is a South Asian island country, located in the Indian Ocean, […]
December 5, 2022

Judge Orders U.S. Lawyer in Russian Botnet Case to Pay Google

This post was originally published on this siteIn December 2021, Google filed a civil lawsuit against two Russian men thought to be responsible for operating Glupteba, one of the Internet’s largest and oldest botnets. The defendants, who initially pursued a strategy of counter suing Google for tortious interference in their sprawling cybercrime business, later brazenly offered to dismantle the botnet in exchange for payment from Google. The judge in the case was not amused, found for the plaintiff, and ordered the defendants and their U.S. attorney to pay Google’s legal fees. A slide from a talk given in Sept. 2022 […]