Rove Digital was an
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
n IT company which gained fame as a producer of copious amounts of
spam, and as a major distributor of
trojans
Trojan or Trojans may refer to:
* Of or from the ancient city of Troy
* Trojan language, the language of the historical Trojans
Arts and entertainment Music
* '' Les Troyens'' ('The Trojans'), an opera by Berlioz, premiered part 1863, part 189 ...
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Rove Digital is named #2 of "Top 10 Worst Spammers". In a ''PC & Tech Authority'' article, Rove Digital's CEO, Vladimir Tšaštšin, was ranked at 10 on a list of the Top 10 worst chief executives, for his work at
EstDomains.
On 15 February 2012, the court of
Harju County, in Estonia, refused to block the
extradition
Extradition is an action wherein one jurisdiction delivers a person accused or convicted of committing a crime in another jurisdiction, over to the other's law enforcement. It is a cooperative law enforcement procedure between the two jurisdi ...
to the
United States
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of four Estonian nationals charged in connection with "
Operation Ghost Click
DNSChanger is a DNS hijacking Trojan. The work of an Estonian company known as Rove Digital, the malware-infected computers by modifying a computer's DNS entries to point toward its own rogue name servers, which then injected its own advertising ...
": Timur Gerassimov, Dmitri Jegorov, Vladimir Tšaštšin, and Konstantin Poltev. The same court had previously refused to block the extradition of the two other Estonians charged in the case, Anton Ivanov and Valeri Aleksejev. Those defendants appealed the court's ruling on the basis that the U.S. lacked
jurisdiction
Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' + 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. In federations like the United States, areas of jurisdiction apply to local, state, and federal levels.
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, because the crimes were committed in Estonia. Prosecutors countered that the crimes were committed against American businesses and institutions, citing as an example US$60,000 in costs incurred by
NASA
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.
Gerassimov, Jegorov and Poltev were sentenced to jail for 40 and 44 months by US court
See also
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EstDomains
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Trojan.Win32.DNSChanger
''Trojan.Win32.DNSChanger'' is a backdoor trojan that redirects users to various malicious websites through the means of altering the DNS settings of a victim's computer. The malware strain was first discovered by Microsoft Malware Protection Cen ...
References
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External links
Betanews.comUs.trendmicro.comGizmodo.comJustice.gov
Spammers
Information technology companies of Estonia
2011 disestablishments in Estonia