Botnet Brain Pleads Guilty

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 24, 2006 @05:35AM from the there-are-better-ways-to-make-a-buck dept.

spge writes "Now that Jeanson James Ancheta has plead guilty to spamming, computer misuse and fraud, it might be worth scanning through the original indictment document, which includes a step-by-step account of how someone goes about setting up an adware business, manages botnets and (thankfully) gets caught." From the BBC article: "'Mr Ancheta was responsible for a particularly insidious string of crimes,' said a spokesman for the US attorney's office in Los Angeles, Thom Mrozek. 'He hijacked somewhere in the area of half a million computer systems. This not only affected computers like the one in your home, but it allowed him and others to orchestrate large-scale attacks.'" We discussed Ancheta's arrest back in October of last year.

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Re:Hmmm... by arachnoprobe · 2006-01-24 06:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

me2. Did you know, that she has a show on broadway now?
Jenna Jameson a botnet brain? by Jack+Johnson · 2006-01-24 06:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I've loaded the main page three times today and read it that way every time.
Re:There's a Botnet named Brain? by PhysicsPhil · 2006-01-24 06:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

A botnet named Brain. Coming soon, a botnet named Pinky.
PARENT IS NOT OFF-TOPIC. by Caspian · 2006-01-24 06:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Mods are on crack. Read the parent post; it's specifically about this "botnet brain" guy and what he allegedly did.

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