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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."

3 of 95 comments (clear)

  1. Hi by hailfawebbe · · Score: -1, Troll

    No stimulus package in sight. I'm holding on to my bots till the rebound. Bol Apartments

  2. $0.15? by DrScotsman · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's the same as 0.15 cents. That's cheap!

  3. Hi by silviasaint29 · · Score: -1, Troll

    It apparently was a proof of concept only; limited (for whatever reason) to a single ISP. Bol Apartments