| Botnet controller jailed in USA
Gets 30 months in jail, and a 3 years supervison order.. |
Leosghost
msg:4492297 | 12:09 pm on Sep 7, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| Joshua Schichtel of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced for renting out more than 72,000 PCs that he had taken over using computer viruses. |
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engine
msg:4492307 | 1:38 pm on Sep 7, 2012 (gmt 0) |
That's a lot of machines infected with the botnet.
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Leosghost
msg:4492311 | 2:09 pm on Sep 7, 2012 (gmt 0) |
There are / were bigger botnets..( don't forget the 72K was just a part of his larger herd of ? many ) 72K ,thats is about small to middling size..
Some were / are, over 4 million units..and mariposa was over 12 million..
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engine
msg:4492316 | 2:25 pm on Sep 7, 2012 (gmt 0) |
even at 72k, think of all that spam!
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