Botnet controller jailed in USA

Gets 30 months in jail, and a 3 years supervison order..

[Leosghost]

Joshua Schichtel of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced for renting out more than 72,000 PCs that he had taken over using computer viruses.

[bbc.com...]

[engine]

That's a lot of machines infected with the botnet.

[Leosghost]

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..

[engine]

even at 72k, think of all that spam!