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Romanian hackers found guilty in Ohio federal court of victimizing thousands with malware

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Dissent

Eric Heisig reports the follow-up on a case previously noted on this site:

Two Romanian hackers were founded guilty Thursday of launching a series of sophisticated malware attacks that infected the computers of thousands of people around the world.

Bogdan Nicolescu and Radu Miclaus were each convicted on 20 charges, including wire fraud, conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit service marks, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Read more on Cleveland.com.


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