{"id":568672,"date":"2026-08-17T14:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=568672"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:17:05","slug":"classmates-from-ashmyany-and-a-pinsk-resident-to-stand-trial-for-developing-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/classmates-from-ashmyany-and-a-pinsk-resident-to-stand-trial-for-developing-viruses","title":{"rendered":"Classmates From Ashmyany and a Pinsk Resident to Stand Trial for Developing Viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The prosecutor&#8217;s office has sent a criminal case against three 18-year-old men to court. The classmates from Ashmyany and the Pinsk resident are accused of developing computer viruses and distributing them as a group.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecution, the classmates from Ashmyany met the Pinsk resident through social media. During 2025, they developed and distributed malicious software, including trojans, ransomware, blockers and extortion viruses.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The programs they developed were designed to intercept keyboard keystrokes, lock the screen, preventing the user from working with a PC normally, as well as damage and destroy system files, making it impossible to launch applications and operate the operating system as a whole.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>In addition, the programs were designed to steal users&#8217; data (passwords, browsing history, credit card details, usernames, computer information and other data) and display messages demanding a ransom for the data,&#8221;<\/i> the prosecutor&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor&#8217;s office noted that all three were self-taught and acquired their knowledge about viruses from forums and messengers.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;During the investigation, instances of the malicious programs being distributed to other users were established. These users could not be identified because they concealed their digital traces.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The unlawful activities of the accused were stopped by law enforcement before any consequences occurred for the victims,&#8221;<\/i> the prosecutor&#8217;s office added.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants&#8217; actions were classified under Part 1 of Article 354, Part 2 of Article 354, as well as Part 6 of Article 16 and Part 1 of Article 354 of the Criminal Code. They remain under a written undertaking not to leave the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecutor&#8217;s office has sent a criminal case against three 18-year-old men to court. The classmates from Ashmyany and the Pinsk resident are accused of developing computer viruses and distributing them as a group. According to the prosecution, the classmates from Ashmyany met the Pinsk resident through social media. During 2025, they developed and distributed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":534462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a8309d55f995.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Classmates From Ashmyany and a Pinsk Resident to Stand Trial for Developing Viruses"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}