Bulletproof hosting admins sentenced for helping cybercrime gangs

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Two Eastern European men were sentenced to prison on Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) charges for bulletproof hosting services used by multiple cybercrime operations to target US organizations.

They provided cybercrime-affiliated clients with the infrastructure needed to host exploit kits and to run malicious campaigns distributing spam emails and malware for roughly seven years, between 2008 and 2015.

"The group rented IP addresses, servers, and domains to cybercriminal clients who employed this technical infrastructure to disseminate malware used to gain access to victims' computers, form botnets, and steal banking credentials for use in fraud," the DOJ said in the sentencing memorandum.
 
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