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Botnet hacker pleads guilty

Filed in archive by randy on January 24, 2006

CNN: Jeanson James Ancheta, of Downey, California, pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court to four felony charges for crimes, including infecting machines at two U.S. military sites, that earned him more than $61,000, said federal prosecutor James Aquilina. [cut] Ancheta and SoBe signed up as affiliates in programs maintained by online advertising companies that pay people each time they get a computer user to install software that displays ads and collects information about the sites a user visits. Prosecutors say Ancheta and SoBe then installed the ad software from the two companies -- Gamma Entertainment of Montreal, Quebec, and Loudcash, whose parent company was acquired last year by 180Solutions of Bellevuelinks, Washington -- on the bots they controlled, pocketing more than $58,000 in 13 months.



http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/01/23/hacker.ap/index.html

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