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Jeanson James Ancheta, 20, of Downey, California, of which we reported about his arrest here, and him pleading guilty here, has heard his sentence from United States District Judge R. Gary Klausner in Los Angeles.

Judge Klausner, who characterized Ancheta’s crimes as “extensive, serious and sophisticated,” has sentenced him to 57 months in jail. After he completes his jail time, he will serve three years of supervised release. In this time his access to computers and the Internet will be limited. He will also have to pay 15000$ USD damages to the Weapons Division of the United States Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake and the Defense Information Systems Agency, and all his profits from the activities including a BMW have been forfeited.

British newspaper The Times had done a research on the sale of illegal creditcard information of British citizens.

According to The Times between 300 and 400 creditcard numbers are sold each night of British citizens. It is mostly gangs from Eastern Europe and South East Asia who are involved in this type of criminality.

The gangs use IRC channels to sell the information. A creditcard number is worth 1$ and a creditcard number together with the security number is worth between 3$ and 5$.

The creditcard information is usually obtained by compromising websites where customers have used their creditcards to pay.

Rootkits for Windows are the ‘hot’ thing among certain groups of people who like to keep their practices hidden on the computers of unknowing others.

Rootkits work in such ways that they can hide their processes from the user, making it hard to detect the rootkit, let alone remove it from the system. Although a rootkit in itself can be hidden form the user, often a rootkit is not enough to perform the tasks the malicious user wants accomplished. Providing a FTP server, connecting to IRC to receive commands and sort like features are still provided by separate software which can be detected and show a possible rootkit installed.

A 22 year-old man from Victoria, Australia has been arrested in Melbourne yesterday. He has been charged with several DDoS attacks which includes attacks he performed towards IRC Networks.

It was inititally the Belgian police who tipped the Australian police about the man. But also ISPs in United States, Singapore and Austria were affected by the DDoS which took place from botnets.

“Bots and bot networks continue to be of concern and are linked … to a range of other malicious activity including identity theft and spam,” said Mr Zuccato, from the Australian High Tech Crime Centre.

Lately a wave of arrests have been made regarding people using DDoS, and today a press release has been made regarding the arrest of 30 year-old Richard C. Honour, nicknamed Fyle/Anatoly from Seattle.

Honour is believed to have coded and then spread trojans over IRC. Infected PCs were supplying Honour with information such as online banking and other identity and privacy sensitive data.

“This name is not just familiar with DarkMyst, but throughout the IRC community” said Ryan, admin on DarkMyst in a reaction to IRC-Junkie. “Honours’ activities affected many IRC networks, many of which were involved in the operation and provided information that led to his arrest.”