FBI agents bust 'Botmaster'
 

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- A 20-year-old man accused of using thousands of hijacked computers, or "bot nets," to damage systems and send massive amounts of spam across the Internet was arrested on Thursday in what authorities called the first such prosecution of its kind.

Jeanson James Ancheta, who prosecutors say was a well-known member of the "Botmaster Underground" -- or the secret network of computer hackers skilled at bot attacks -- was taken into custody after being lured to FBI offices in Los Angeles, said U.S. Attorney's spokesman Thom Mrozek.

A bot is a program that surreptitiously installs itself on a computer and allows the hacker to control the computer. A bot net is a network of such robot computers, which can harness their collective power to do considerable damage or send out huge quantities of spam.

Mrozek said Ancheta, who lives in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey, was thought to have made nearly $60,000 from the planted adware, using the money to pay for servers to carry out additional attacks, computer equipment and a BMW.

He said Ancheta was taken into custody after FBI agents called him into their offices to pick up computer equipment that had been seized in an earlier raid.

Among the computers he attacked, Mrozek said, were some at the Weapons Division of the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California and at the U.S. Department of Defense.


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he could have been rich and retired at 21.. now he will get the fuck in the butt

its about time they bust that prick, maybe now he'll finally learn to shut the fuck up.

yeah might happen in the end :pimp

thats the biggest difference I am finding in youth - just dont know when to shut the fuck up or quit when ahead. Now he's 'Buttmaster'

He will narc out his bot cronies to try to save his own ass.. kids have no loyalty.

Can't be awfully bright if he was lured to FBI's office...instead of them having to go and round him up.

If guilty, hope the prick gets what's coming to him.


SilentKnight

like most kids his age they likely promised him babes and free internext passes

it is ??

Picking up PCs from a previous raid? Didn't he learn his lesson then. He deserves what he gets.

$60,000 ??


amateur.

This shoud help

http://www.honeynet.org/papers/bots/

"Among the computers he attacked, Mrozek said, were some at the Weapons Division of the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California and at the U.S. Department of Defense."

hahahahahahahahahahahaha. one of the most protected networks in the world. jackass.

what a fucking idiot. messing with military servers. yeah thats real smart.

pffffffffffffffff!

he deserved it for being a doofus.

thank jebus...

I gotta agree with you on this one. Target the military servers=go to jail card.

His biggest mistake in being a script kiddie is targeting government and .mil computers.

doesnt matter he wont get any jail time because he will rat out his friends and the goverment will prob now hire him to work for them, thats what happends now adays

I wonder who will follow!!

sadly this is very close to the truth.

well most who sit in their basement hitting the keys dont realize that there is a real world out there. he lost reality and believe he was bigger and better than he was. that was his biggest mistake

I was wondering why woj was missing so many 50 posts...

Only 60k ? He must be an amateur

Probably some stupid milatiry surfing porn on the wrong sites or something like that ...

I doubt they would hire an amatuer like that ... 60k $ ... he sucks, that's why he got caught

I read the title and I thought the FBI busted woj

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Most likely...

Sucks for him.