信息来源：邪恶八进制信息安全团队（www.eviloctal.com）

Three  Russian guys have been condemned to eight years in prison and fined $ 3700 for carrying out a series of DOS attacks against UK gambling and betting websites, the Russian press agency Novosti reported yesterday.

Ivan Maksakov of Balakovo, Alexander Petrov of Astrakhan, and Denis Stepanov of St Petersburg , managed in extorting about 4 million dollars  from world Internet companies in a very short time before they were captured.

According to Russian public prosecutor, they acted collecting information about British web casinos and bookmakers’ offices using spy software designed by one member of the crew, and then  they demanded ransoms to the owners of  such websites under the threat of  Denial of service attacks.

"The web server of Canbet Sports Bookmakers Ltd, which refused to pay a $10,000 ransom demand, was blocked during the Breeders' Cup races, and the company lost more than $200,000 for each day of downtime," he said.

In their  six month activity,  the Russian guys attacked over 54 web servers in 30 different countries and they stopped just because they were detected by authorities and arrested between 2004 and 2005.

Indeed Maksakov and Stepanov were arrested in September 2004 thanks to an investigation by  the UK's National High Tech Crime Unit, Interpol, the FBI and Russia's Interior Ministry, and the Prosecutor General's Office. Petrov was collared in mid 2005.  

This sentence that was pronounced in the city of Balakovo in the Volga river Saratov region, 530 miles southeast of Moscow, on Tuesday,  closes the case of the three Russian crackers.

判处八年徒刑,罚款$3700  [s:39]  
      貌似少了点, 找人家勒索400万美元,  应该跟着罚400万

其实俄罗斯官方倒是对此很得意,他们是俄罗斯的年轻一代可以靠自己的能力赚钱,而且是用先进的办法,卡巴斯基就是一个典范.

又是俄罗斯的？？？