Aleksey Burkov, an IT freelancer from Saint Petersburg, has been handed down a nine-year sentence in the US on charges of cyber fraud. The man spent more than four years in Israeli prisons after an arrest on Washington’s request.
American prosecutors sought 15 years in prison for Burkov, who pleaded guilty to involvement in cyber-attacks and to computer network fraud. They accused him of organizing a “cybercrime forum” for criminals of all sorts, allowing them to obtain stolen data, hacking services and malware, as well as to cut shady deals with each other.
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