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Andrey Sabelnikov is the Russian programmer whom Microsoft accused of creation of the botnet Kelihos. Is an employee of outsourcing company Teknavo.
Microsoft considers that Sabelnikov participated in creation and control of Kelihos closed in September, 2011.
Education
1998 — 2003 - Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, f-t of Computing systems and programming (The computing and radio-electronic systems).
Career
- R-Tools - the leading developer
- Agnitum - the leading developer, the project manager
- Returnil - the lead engineer
- Teknavo (since December, 2011 until the present) - the leading developer.
О Kelihos
The botnet Kelihos was closed in September, 2011. It was not the largest on the number of the infected computers, but spam letters sent about 4 billion that is comparable with a performance of the largest botnet Rustock.
Microsoft in the official blog announced the claim which is filed a lawsuit by it of East district of the American State of Virginia. The claim is put forward, in particular, against Andrey Sabelnikov who is accused of creation and control of the spam botnet Kelihos.
Links
- Microsoft accused the employee of the known IT companies of Russia of creation of a powerful botnet
- Andrey Sabelnikov's page on LinkedIn
- Andrey Sabelnikov's page on my Circle