Security News in Brief: Russian National Sentenced for Providing Crypting Service for Kelihos Botnet

Source: United States Department of Justice News

A Russian national was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for operating a “crypting” service used to conceal the Kelihos malware from antivirus software, which enabled hackers to systematically infect approximately hundreds of thousands of victim computers around the world with malicious software, including ransomware.