Botnet takedown snares 3ve, Methbot ad fraud campaigns [telecom]

The Justice Department indicted eight individuals accused of running major ad fraud campaigns, including the 3ve botnet, which generated millions of dollars in fake ad revenue.

By Rod Wright

The Department of Justice Tuesday announced the indictments of eight people accused of running massive ad fraud schemes that were disrupted by an FBI-led botnet takedown.

The 13-count indictment, which was unsealed in a federal court in Brooklyn, charged six Russian nationals and two Kazakhstan citizens with crimes including wire fraud, computer intrusion, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. The defendants - Aleksandr Zhukov, Boris Timokhin, Mikhail Andreev, Denis Avdeev, Dmitry Novikov, Sergey Ovsyannikov, Aleksandr Isaev and Yevgeniy Timchenko - were behind a massive botnet as well as two ad fraud campaigns, known as Methbot and 3ve, that generated millions of dollars. Ovsyannikov, Zhukov and Timchenko were recently arrested in Malaysia, Bulgaria and Estonia, respectively, and are awaiting extradition to the U.S.; the remaining defendants are still at large.

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