, SecurityFocus 2005-11-03
Federal authorities arrested a 20-year-old California man on Thursday, accusing him of creating bot software to compromise nearly 400,000 Windows computers and using his control of the systems to garner more than $60,000 in profits.
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"This is the first case to charge someone for using bots for generating profits."
In fact - it's not. The W32.Leave.Worm author, a british man convicted for a number of things, was using his worm and the bots created by it to generate a significant profit through click-through advertisements of the time.
Just a little side note of interest.
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