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Suspected bot master busted
Robert Lemos, 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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Re: Not the first one... 2005-11-07
Matthew Murphy
I'm not familiar in-depth with the circumstances surrounding that particular worm. However, most or all bot herders up to this point have been charged with crimes relating to the *compromise* of their victim PCs. The indirect motive (profit) in these cases is the same, but the basis for criminal c...

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