Prosecutor release # Estonian National Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Charges Arising From Massive Cyber Fraud Scheme That Infected Millions Of Computers Worldwide United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, July 8, 2015. DNSChanger / Operation Ghost Click: Vladimir Tsastsin's guilty plea to wire fraud and computer intrusion charges. **Source type:** Prosecutor release **Published:** July 8, 2015 **Research grade:** P1 **Used in entries:** 3 ## Bibliographic record **Publisher:** United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York **Published:** July 8, 2015 **Source type:** Prosecutor release **Research grade:** Source grade P1 **Language:** English **Official record:** Official publication **Address:** [https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/estonian-national-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-charges-arising-massive-cyber](https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/estonian-national-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-charges-arising-massive-cyber) **What it supports:** DNSChanger / Operation Ghost Click: Vladimir Tsastsin's guilty plea to wire fraud and computer intrusion charges **Dataset id:** src\_usao\_sdny\_tsastsin\_plea\_2015 ## Research notes - Retrieved through the justice.gov press-release JSON API because justice.gov serves an Akamai bot interstitial to automated fetchers. How this source is used Cited 3 times across 1 record type. The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards. Sources were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 23, 2026. Addresses recorded after that date are not reflected here. ## Cited by ### Legal actions against people 3 citations Cited for a recorded legal action against a named person. - [Timur Gerassimenko](https://takedownindex.org/people/timur-gerassimenko) Charged, Operation Ghost Click Later outcome - [Valeri Aleksejev](https://takedownindex.org/people/valeri-aleksejev) Charged, Operation Ghost Click Later outcome - [Vladimir Tsastsin](https://takedownindex.org/people/vladimir-tsastsin) Pleaded guilty, Operation Ghost Click Later outcome [All sources](https://takedownindex.org/sources)