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BOTNET AUTHOR SENTENCED IN ARMENIA
BY NEREA RIAL
New Europe
http://www.neurope.eu/article/botnet-author-sentenced-armenia
May 24 2012
A Russian man, Georg Avanesov, who was in command of the botnet,
Bredolab, has been sentenced to four years jail in Armenia.
With this collection of compromised 30 million computers he was
earning £80,000 a month, by renting out access to criminals who
wanted to send out spam, spread malware and fake anti-virus attacks,
and launch DDoS attacks.
It is estimated that Avanesov could send more than 3 billion infected
emails every day according to Sophos, a developer and vendor of
security software and hardware.
Often, attacks designed to recruit new computers into the botnet would
be spammed out, pretending to come from the likes of Facebook, Skype
and Amazon with an attached HTML file. When users clicked the link,
their computers were infected by a compromised third-party website.
According to Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos,
the infections took control of users' PCs, and in some cases stole
passwords and usernames.
From: A. Papazian
BY NEREA RIAL
New Europe
http://www.neurope.eu/article/botnet-author-sentenced-armenia
May 24 2012
A Russian man, Georg Avanesov, who was in command of the botnet,
Bredolab, has been sentenced to four years jail in Armenia.
With this collection of compromised 30 million computers he was
earning £80,000 a month, by renting out access to criminals who
wanted to send out spam, spread malware and fake anti-virus attacks,
and launch DDoS attacks.
It is estimated that Avanesov could send more than 3 billion infected
emails every day according to Sophos, a developer and vendor of
security software and hardware.
Often, attacks designed to recruit new computers into the botnet would
be spammed out, pretending to come from the likes of Facebook, Skype
and Amazon with an attached HTML file. When users clicked the link,
their computers were infected by a compromised third-party website.
According to Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos,
the infections took control of users' PCs, and in some cases stole
passwords and usernames.
From: A. Papazian