Texas Man Pleads Guilty To Building Botnet-For-Hire 95
Julie188 writes "A Mesquite, Texas, man is set to plead guilty to training his 22,000-PC botnet on a local ISP — just to show off its firepower to a potential customer. David Anthony Edwards will plead guilty to charges that he and another man, Thomas James Frederick Smith, built a custom botnet, called Nettick, which they then tried to sell to cybercriminals at the rate of US$0.15 per infected computer, according to court documents."
Counts (Score:4, Funny)
I hope they get charged with 1 count per infected PC - and screw concurrent sentencing.
$3300.00 (Score:5, Funny)
At just .15 per bot, this confirms that the economic downturn has affected the bot trade as well.
No stimulus package in sight. I'm holding on to my bots till the rebound.
Re:$3300.00 (Score:3, Funny)
At just .15 per bot, this confirms that the economic downturn has affected the bot trade as well.
No stimulus package in sight. I'm holding on to my bots till the rebound.
My botsfrommumbi(trademark pending) are .0275 per bot. So don't hold your breath.
Re:Obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
Attack the Rebels' computers, Admiral Biet.
Yeah, I have a question... (Score:5, Funny)
Have you grown up yet?
Verizon reference (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2isSJKntbg [youtube.com]
According to Verizon rep, 0.002 dollar = 0.002 cent. So your parent is right.