Maxim Senakh was found guilty of cyber fraud.⁠

The American court sentenced hacker from Russia Maxim Senakh to 3 years and 10 months in prison, having found him guilty of cybercrimes.

41-year-old Senakh being the part of a criminal group installed malicious program Ebury, which formed a network of infected computers, on the servers. The program abducted users with personal data, sent out spam and redirected traffic to increase site views. On the Ebury program a Russian with accomplices earned millions of dollars. The US Justice Ministry does not name the exact amount of illegal income. Thousands of users around the world have become victims of cyber frauds.

"The defendant and his accomplices tried to turn a network of thousands of infected computers in the US and around the world into their personal cash registers," said Acting Prosecutor General Kenneth Blanco.

After the expiration of the prison term, Senakh will be deported from the United States.

The US authorities brought charges against the Russian hacker in absentia back in January 2015, in August of the same year he was detained in Finland at the request of the United States, and in February 2016 he was extradited. Maxim Senakh admitted his guilt in spreading the malware at the investigation stage in March 2017.

In the US, several Russians are convicted or are under investigation for cyber fraud. In particular, in April 2017, four Russian citizens admitted their guilt for cyber fraud with credit cards, the damage from which was previously estimated at $5 million. In addition, on July 19, programmer Mark Vartanyan was sentenced to a five-year prison term for fraud and developing a computer virus Citadel. And recently in Greece, at the request of the United States, Russian Alexander Vinnik was detained, charged with laundering $4 billion through the bitcoins exchange BTC-e.