A Russian national who was arrested earlier this month in Spain has been charged with criminal hacking offences in relation to operating the Kelihos botnet in an eight-count indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Connecticut, the US Justice Department said on April 21.
Peter Yuryevich Levashov, 36, was indicted on April 20 by a grand jury in Bridgeport and charged with causing intentional damage to a protected computer and wire fraud, among other counts, the Justice Department said in a statement.
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