'Botmaster' Hacker Pleads Guilty

WingaWinga MrSouth Africa Icrontian
edited January 2006 in Science & Tech
In the first such prosecution of its kind, "Botmaster" Jeanson Ancheta (20) admitted infecting computers with software that caused them to send spam, show ads and launch crippling attacks on internet sites.
Prosecutors say the case was unique because Ancheta was accused of profiting from his attacks by selling access to his "bot nets" to other hackers and planting adware, software that causes advertisements to pop up, into infected computers.

Among computers he attacked were some at the Weapons Division of the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California, and at the U.S. Department of Defense.
Source: Reuters

Comments

  • Unknown
    edited January 2006
    yeh, they probably wouldnt have cared until the goverments computers got infected.
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