Botmaster James Ancheta Sentenced to Five Years
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
A US computer hacker was jailed for nearly five years for hijacking around 400,000 computers, including military servers, and infecting them with malicious software.More here.
Sealing the first prosecution of its kind, US federal Judge Gary Klausner in Los Angeles sentenced "botmaster" Jeanson Ancheta, 20, to 57 months in jail for taking control of an array of computers he had corralled into his "Botnet."
Ancheta had pleaded guilty in January to infecting the computers with software that caused them to send spam, show ads and launch crippling attacks on Internet sites.
The crime was "extensive, serious and sophisticated," the judge told the court as he handed down the longest-known sentence for someone accused of spreading computer viruses.
posted by Fergie @ 5/08/2006 07:16:00 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home