DOJ Arrests Computer Virus Broker
Wednesday, November 9. 2005
By Steve Bass
The F.B.I. arrested a 20-year old California man and charged him with spreading Trojans in order to gain control of PCs and turn them into robots in order to launch distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks and, of course, to send spam. WooHoo!
If you have an important project today and need to kill some time, take a minute to skim through the indictment, a 2MB PDF file.
The Department of Justice, in a 17-part indictment, contends that among other things, Jeanson James Ancheta modified and sold copies of rxbot, a Trojan horse on an IRC channel. He also allegedly generated income from the surreptitious installation of adware on the infected computers.
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