Russia jails hacker for two years over cyberattack on local tech company

A Rostov-region resident was sentenced to two years in a penal colony and fined 500,000 rubles for organizing a paid DDoS attack in April 2024 against a company classified as part of Russia’s critical information infrastructure; the piece situates this case among several recent domestic prosecutions of alleged hackers and notes accusations of cooperation with Ukrainian intelligence, ongoing trials of groups like REvil, and political pushback against sanctions on pro-Kremlin hacker groups.