Google Secures Sanctions Against Lawyer in N.Y. Privacy Case

Google LLC convinced a federal judge in New York to issue sanctions against a lawyer and his clients, whom the company said tried to steal and exploit Google users’ personal information.

Google brought claims against Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov, saying they control the Glupteba botnet, a network of private computers infected with malware that was allegedly used to harvest personal and financial information. Starovikov and Filippov failed to timely appear in the case and a default was entered before it was vacated, court records show.

After the entry of default was vacated, the two defendants produced very little discovery, ...