New Zealand convicts 18-year-old botherder
18-year-old New Zealander, Owen Thor Walker, pleaded guilty earlier this week to six charges of using computers for illegal purposes. Walker, has been accused of playing a key role in a gang that infected 1.3 million computers around the world, installing revenue-generating adware and stealing information worth US $20 million. Full story at Sophos.
FBI roasts more botherders
In a previous post I blogged about an FBI bot-roast. Well, now they’ve conducted the second phase, bot roast II, which has revealed more than $20 million in economic loss and more than one million victim computers. As a result, eight individuals have been indicted, pled guilty, or been sentenced for crimes related to botnet [...]
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