On December 9, 2021, an American court sentenced Russian citizen Oleg Koshkin to 4 years in prison for cyber crimes he committed, including for helping hackers provide encryption services to distribute the Kelihos botnet. During the trial, the prosecution wanted Koshkin to be isolated for 15 years in prison.

According to the court ruling, the Koshkin Court worked directly with Petr Levashov, the operator of the Kelihos botnet. Due to Koshkin's actions to ensure the functioning of the encryption service, the botnet was able to infect several hundred thousand victims' PCs around the world without hindrance, bypassing anti-virus programs. On some of them, various malware, ransomware and ransomware were then installed.

The court documents also indicate that Koshkin was in charge of administering sites that hosted malicious software to deploy the Kelihos botnet. Its signatures, due to an additional layer of encryption that was constantly changing, were invisible to security software services for many corporate clients and home users. Koshkin ran Crypt4U.com, Crypt4U.net, fud.bz, fud.re, and other websites that spread malware (botnets, remote access Trojans, keyloggers, credential stealing software, and cryptocurrency miners).

Law enforcement agencies detained Koshkin in California in September 2019. In June of this year, a jury in a Connecticut court found Koshkin guilty on all counts of cybercrime.

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