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A Brazilian man who allegedly sold access to a huge network of compromised PCs has been charged with computer hacking offences in the US.
Leni de Abreu Neto, 35, of Taubate, Brazil, allegedly maintained and leased access to a 100,000-strong botnet network of compromised PCs that he subsequently attempted to sell, according to an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in New Orleans. If convicted, Neto faces up to five years imprisonment as well as fines and restitution payments of more than $250,000.
Neto allegedly conspired with Netherlands resident Nordin Nasiri, 19, of Sneek, to sell access to a network of compromised PCs and supply botnet code to a third party for around €25,000 ($37,000). These zombie PCs provided a platform to distribute spam or launch distributed denial of service attacks.
Dutch police cuffed Neto on 29 July, acting on information from the FBI and Brazilian cybercops. He is currently in detention in The Netherlands pending extradition proceedings.
Meanwhile, Neto's alleged co-conspirator Nasiri is being prosecuted by Dutch authorities.
A DoJ statement on the case can be found here. ®
COMMENTS
@AC
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At that point you entered the war, not to save anyone, but to protect your "investment"
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@AC
AC do you remember a small incident called Pearl Harbour? It seems that was the reason the US joined in WW2, before that they were too busy making huge profits from arms sales. Nothing to do with helping anyone. The evidence is clear that the US only ever acts in its own self interest.
As for British TV, it is far superior to the all-image-no-subsatnce rubbish the US produces. The only succesfull US comedy's are cartoons.
Whilst I do not live on Britain, if I had to choose it would be a no brainer, Britain all the way.
The US is full of overcompensating SUV driving gun nuts, much like yourself no doubt!
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The leather one with E=mc^2 written in binary with studs.
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