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Pyotr Levashov so feared being extradited to the United States that he told a Spanish judge, “I will die in a year.” In the end, the FBI ended up paying the highly skilled hacker $6,000 a month for “helping them fighting [sic] crime.”
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share Print A Russian hacker considered to be one of the world's most notorious spammers was sentenced by a U.S. judge on July 20 to time already served in pretrial detention. Pyotr Levashov has already served 33 months in custody on federal charges he operated a network of hijacked computers -- known as botnets -- to steal computer credentials, distribute spam, and install malicious software. The 40-year-old pleaded guilty in 2018 to causing intentional damage to a protected computer, conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. U.S. District Judge Robert Chatigny said the financia...
Federal Judge Sentences Russian Spammer to Time Served Though prosecutors said Peter Levashov’s botnet spamming services helped facilitate other crimes, the judge credited the Russian national’s admission of responsibility. (CN) — Prosecutors once described Peter Levashov as one of the internet’s most notorious spammers, a “bot master” of a network of tens of thousands of computers infected with malware that at one point could have spammed inboxes with 4 billion messages in a day. On Tuesday afternoon, saying he was impressed with Levashov’s “prompt and complete acceptance of ...
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