Botnet Mastermind Hacker AKILL gets Caught.
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Written by Pavs on December 1st,
2007
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An 18 year old Hacker from New Zealand with the alias “AKILL” have been arrested and put into custody by the police with the help of FBI, last night. He was accused of running a botnet of 1.5 million computers. the bot net was used to steal credit cards, manipulate stock trades and perform DDOS attacks of corporate computers. The FBI puts the combined loss of his activities to around 20 million dollars.
If convicted he could face upto 5 years in prison and 250,000 in fines.
More from BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7120251.stm
Botnets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet
Largest Botnets of them all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_botnet
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December 29th, 2007 08:50
We would like to offer Mr ‘Akill’ a job at the Republic of CyberBunker. Included in this package would be a diplomatic passport and a safe location to work from.
I suggest that if anyone knows how to contact him that they ask him to contact us:
Best regards,
Sir James
W: http://www.cyberbunker.com
W: http://www.republic-cyberbunker.org
E: sales@cb3rob.net