Two brothers convicted of creating bitcoin ransomware and infecting more than 1,000 computers have narrowly avoided jail time and will instead perform community service.
Authorities initially arrested the two Dutch brothers in 2015 for infecting thousands of computers during the previous two years. Three years later, the story is finally coming to an end, as the court sentenced the brothers to 240 hours of community service, local media sources have reported.
CNN initially reported the news on November 2015. At the time, two ransomware strains, CoinVault and Bitcryptor, were taken down by a joint effort between The Netherlands’ law enforcement agency and a Russian private security firm, Kaspersky.
