Security News > 2023 > May > Russian IT guy sent to labor camp for DDoSing Kremlin websites

A Russian IT worker accused of participating in pro-Ukraine denial of service attacks against Russian government websites has been sentenced to three years in a penal colony and ordered to pay 800,000 rubles.

According to the state-owned TASS news agency, a Russian regional court handed down the sentence against Yevgeny Kotikov, who is said to have supported Kyiv during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

These types of network-flooding takedowns have been extremely popular with both Russian and Ukrainian crews during the war as a means to block information resources and knock critical infrastructure websites offline.

"Officers of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Rostov Region documented and stopped the criminal activities of an IT specialist involved in a computer DDoS attack organized by the Ukrainian side on the information systems of subjects of the critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation," the FSB said in a statement, according to the TASS report.

Russian hacktivists, of course, have also launched more than their share of DDoS attacks against Ukraine and other countries that have supported Kyiv in its war efforts.

The country's Minister of Cyber Security said Russian hackers were likely responsible.

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