A New York judge has issued a default judgment against two Russian nationals who are alleged to have helped create the “Glupteba” botnet, sold fraudulent credit card information, and generated cryptocurrency using the network.
The ad giant said Glupteba had infected one million compromised devices across the globe, where it went on steal users’ account data, sometimes growing at a speed of thousands per day.
The New York district court judge overseeing the case, Denise Cote, also sanctioned the men and their attorney, Igor B Litvak, for what she described as a “willful campaign to resist discovery and mislead the court,” ruling that their attorney had been complicit.
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Source: The Register