Stussi Pavel

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2021: US prison term for "bulletproof" hosting services to hackers

In October 2021, natives of Estonia and Lithuania received prison sentences in the United States for providing hosting services to hackers. Details are given on the website of the US Department of Justice.

The chief judge of the US District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan Deniz Page Hood (Denise Page Hood) sentenced 30-year-old Estonian Pavel Stassi to 24 months in prison, and 33-year-old Lithuanian Alexander Skorodumov to 48 months in prison. Both convicts pleaded guilty.

Natives of Estonia and Lithuania received prison sentences in the United States for "bulletproof" hosting services to hackers

According to the investigation, Stassi and Skorodumov were members of an organization that provided "bulletproof" hosting, founded and managed by two citizens of the Russian Federation, Alexander Grichishkin and Andrey Skvortsov. The group leased IP addresses, servers and domains to cybercriminals who used this infrastructure to distribute malware (Zeus, SpyEye, Citadel, Blackhole), hack computers, form botnets and steal bank credentials.

The US Department of Justice notes that Skorodumov was one of the organization's leading system administrators. In this role, he configured and managed domains and IP addresses, and provided technical assistance. Stassi, in turn, performed various administrative tasks. For example, he used stolen or false personal data "to register web hosting and financial accounts used by the organization."

It is noted that Grichishkin and Skvortsov were engaged in marketing, personnel management and customer support, while Skorodumov and Stassi supported all systems and helped customers - operators of botnets and viruses. All these pests were used against American companies, and the attacks led to losses of millions of dollars.

On October 14, 2021, a court in the United States delayed the sentencing of Alexander Grichishkin, who had previously pleaded guilty to cybercrime.^[1]

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