Court case
United States v. Andrey Ghinkul
United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Docket number
- Not published
- Linked takedowns
- 1
- People named
- 1
Case record
- Court
- United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Docket number
- Not published
- Status
- Extradited February 2016; guilty plea 2017-02-08; sentenced 2018-12-06 to time served
- Status verified
- August 21, 2026
- Dataset id
- case_us_v_dridex_ghinkul
The status line was checked against the public record on August 21, 2026. Proceedings may have moved since.
What this case entry is.
This entry records a court docket the audit located and checked: the case name, the court, the docket number where one is published, and the status the cited sources establish. It is not a summary of proceedings and it does not stand in for the docket itself.
A case listed here does not establish that anyone named on this page is guilty. Charges are accusations only. Where a cited source records a conviction or a guilty plea, that outcome is attributed to the source and this index asserts nothing beyond it.
Sources for this entry were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 21, 2026.
Takedowns linked to this case
1 takedown record in this index is linked to this case.
- Dridex/Bugat/Cridex disruption . Malware and botnets, October 2015
People named in this case
1 person in this index is recorded as named in this case.
- Andrey Ghinkul . No alias recorded
Sources
3 sources support this entry. Each one is listed with the role it was relied on for.
- Dridex botnet disrupted; administrator Andrey Ghinkul charged , Primary source . US DOJ / FBI / UK NCA, October 13, 2015 . https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/bugat-botnet-administrator-arrested-and-malware-disabled
- Moldovan Pleads Guilty to Distributing Bugat Malware , Primary source . United States Attorney's Office, Western District of Pennsylvania, February 8, 2017 . https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/moldovan-pleads-guilty-distributing-bugat-malware
- Moldovan Sentenced for Distributing Multifunction Malware Package , Primary source . United States Attorney's Office, Western District of Pennsylvania, December 6, 2018 . https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/moldovan-sentenced-distributing-multifunction-malware-package