A resident of Novovoronezh received a year of imprisonment for a cyber attack on the Kurgan Regional Universal Scientific Library. The crime was solved by employees of the FSB of the Voronezh region.

According to the Press Service of the Voronezh Prosecutor's Office, in February 2018, 24-year-old Mikhail Nazarov installed malicious software on his PC with which allowed him to destroy, block, modify or copy the information and to bypass its protection. The guy found the Internet resource of the Government of the Kurgan region, namely the Library and committed a series of cyber attacks. Why the young man chose this resource is not specified.

However, hacker came to the attention of the FSB, whose officers seized cyber attacks and detained the attacker. Law enforcement authorities opened a criminal case under the article “Creating, using and distributing malicious computer programs”. The maximum penalty under this article is 4 years of imprisonment.

The Court found the young man guilty and sentenced him to one year in prison conditionally. Nazarov received a shorter sentence since he admitted his guilt.

We will remind that earlier the Court of the Voronezh region has sentenced a 30-year-old local resident to one and a half years of imprisonment and 10 thousand roubles a fine for hacker attacks on State sites of Siberia and the Far East. Moreover, the hacker managed to hack the websites of commercial organizations. The man used the hacked services for personal mercenary purposes, including mining.