Cyber ​​Criminal gets seven years in prison

- A cybercriminal Estonian disappears over seven years behind bars in the United States. Vladimir Tsastsin (35) was sentenced to 87 months in prison for infecting more than four million computers in over one hundred countries.

Thus he committed a conspicuous fraud. He robbed no bank accounts, no demanded ransom for hostage files, but the victims sent without their knowing it to his websites. Then stood ads. Due to the high attendance area Tsastsin much advertising revenue.

Click fraud, called the actions of Tsastsin. Computers were infected by people visited certain sites or software installed to view video files. The malware Tsastsin changed the settings. Victims did not go to the site that they clicked on, but to a site of Tsastsin. Malicious program also provided 'advertising replacement. For example, if someone visited the site of a newspaper, the advertisement of an advertiser was shoved by an ad Tsastsin. He got the money and real advertisers were paying for nothing.

Tsastin was picked for $ 2.5 million. Four accomplices were sentenced earlier. They all got three to four years in prison. Another suspect is still at large.