On June 21, the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv sentenced the organizer and two members of an international criminal group to five years in prison with a three-year suspended sentence. The group was involved in creating and distributing malicious computer programs of the Trojan.Carberp family in Russia and Ukraine. On March 19, 2013, the activities of this group were stopped by the Security Service of Ukraine as a result of a special operation conducted jointly with the FSB of Russia. On that day, handcuffs were put on 16 people involved in the development and distribution of one of the most dangerous "banking" Trojan programs in recent years...
"Recently, we have seen an increase in the influx of talented young programmers into the criminal environment," says Boris Sharov, CEO of Dr.Web. "This is largely due to the prevailing belief in the relative impunity of those who create and distribute viruses. In addition, young people often become victims of generous promises from the leaders of cybercriminal groups, tempted by attractive offers that are actually never destined to come true. We have seen all this very clearly in the case of the developers of Trojan.Carberp. We hope that the verdict of the Kyiv court will sober up many lovers of easy money in cyberspace. Moreover, the final chord in this story has not yet sounded; the Russian law enforcement agencies have not yet had their say, and they probably have even more questions for the "Carberp" developers than their Ukrainian colleagues. Cybercrime in any of its forms will definitely be punished; we are convinced of this."
(Василь Симоненко. Люди – прекрасні)


