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Texas Man Pleads Guilty To Building Botnet-For-Hire

Posted by samzenpus on from the best-little-botnet-in-Texas dept.

Julie188 writes "A Mesquite, Texas, man is set to plead guilty to training his 22,000-PC botnet on a local ISP — just to show off its firepower to a potential customer. David Anthony Edwards will plead guilty to charges that he and another man, Thomas James Frederick Smith, built a custom botnet, called Nettick, which they then tried to sell to cybercriminals at the rate of US$0.15 per infected computer, according to court documents."

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  1. Hate to burst yall's bubble by painehope · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I live in Texas. Right outside of Houston, to be specific.

    Credentials established, let me state this for the record : Mesquite is one of those towns you go "I fucking slowed down for this?" while passing through.

    The pieces now fall into place.

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