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RUSSIAN LED HACKING SPREE ON MILLIONS OF PCS
Sky News
http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16234727
May 24 2012
A Russian cybercrime mastermind who was behind a group that hijacked
30 million computers around the world has been jailed.
Georgiy Avanesov was convicted of computer sabotage in an Armenian
court and told to serve four years.
The court heard how Avanesov, aged in his 20s, carried out so-called
denial-of-service attacks, which exploit security weaknesses in
computers, and used a botnet - a network of compromised PCs - to
target victims.
The Bredolab botnet, as it was known, sent out 3.6 billion junk emails
every day at its height.
It also used servers in the Netherlands and was hired out to criminals
who used it to obtain information such as bank passwords and carry
out attacks on websites.
Avanesov was arrested at Armenia's Yerevan airport in 2010 after the
Dutch server network was dismantled.
Sky News
http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16234727
May 24 2012
A Russian cybercrime mastermind who was behind a group that hijacked
30 million computers around the world has been jailed.
Georgiy Avanesov was convicted of computer sabotage in an Armenian
court and told to serve four years.
The court heard how Avanesov, aged in his 20s, carried out so-called
denial-of-service attacks, which exploit security weaknesses in
computers, and used a botnet - a network of compromised PCs - to
target victims.
The Bredolab botnet, as it was known, sent out 3.6 billion junk emails
every day at its height.
It also used servers in the Netherlands and was hired out to criminals
who used it to obtain information such as bank passwords and carry
out attacks on websites.
Avanesov was arrested at Armenia's Yerevan airport in 2010 after the
Dutch server network was dismantled.