Hacker Sentecned to 46 Months in Prison for Spreading Linux Malware

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A Russian man accused of infecting tens of thousands of computer servers worldwide to generate millions in fraudulent payments has been imprisoned for 46 months (nearly four years) in a United States' federal prison.
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I find it quite odd that MalwareTechBlog is facing 40 years for being accused of developing Malware for Windows, but this guy get's roughly 4 years? Hmm.

 

[Weebarra]

I personally think he should have got more, considering the scale of his crime.

 

[Andytay70]

Cant do the time, dont do the crime!

 

[Ken1337]

Everyone that develops a malware program for malicious attacks should be permanently blacklisted from using the internet again.