Author of Allapple virus sentenced.
An Estonian man has been found guilty of creating and distributing the Allapple virus, and sentenced to a little over two and a half years in prison.
The 44-year-old Artur Boiko pleaded not guilty to the charges, but was convicted based on evidence outlined by the prosecution which indicated that Boiko had released the virus in a revenge attack against an insurance company with which he was in dispute.
As the Allapple family spread across the net it launched a denial of service attack from infected machines against three sites: www.if.ee, www.online.if.ee and www.starman.ee – the first two of these were sites belonging to
IF Insurance
, the company with which Boiko was in dispute, and the third site was that of
Starman
, an Estonian ISP.
In addition to the prison sentence, the court ordered Boiko to pay 5.1 million Estonian Kroons (approx. $445,000) to
IF Insurance
and 1.4 million Estonian krooni (approx. $122,000) to
Starman ISP
in compensation.
More on the
F-Secure
blog
here
and at
The Register
here
.
Posted on 11 March 2010 by
Virus Bulletin
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