Kotikov Evgeny

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2023: Sentence - 3 years in prison for attack on state sites

On May 18, 2023, the Rostov Regional Court sentenced IT specialist Yevgeny Kotikov, who was suspected of organizing cyber attacks on Russian information resources. The person involved in the case was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of three years with serving a sentence in a penal colony.

According to RIA Novosti, after the start of a special operation in Ukraine, Kotikov in February 2022 acted as a supporter of the Kyiv regime. He decided to participate in a DDoS attack (a distributed denial of service attack) on the websites of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the President of Russia. The investigation established Kotikov's involvement in these cybercriminal campaigns. The personal computer used by him as a means of committing a crime has been confiscated into the ownership of the state.

IT specialist in Rostov received 3 years in prison for attacking state sites

Employees of the FSB of Russia in the Rostov region documented and suppressed the criminal activities of an IT specialist involved in a computer DDoS attack organized by the Ukrainian side on the information systems of the subjects of the critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation, the ruling says.

Kotikov was found guilty of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 274.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: this is the creation, distribution and (or) use of computer programs or other computer information deliberately intended for unlawful influence on the critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation, including for the destruction, blocking, modification, copying of information contained in it, or neutralizing means of protection. In addition to three years in prison, Kotikov was fined 800 thousand rubles. It is noted that the court decision has already entered into legal force.^[1]

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