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 Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:34 am?? ?Post subject: FBI Arrests Three Botherders
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With the arrest of three suspect botherders the FBI discovered botnets that consist of about a million infected machines worldwide. Amongst the charges for the three are spamming and infecting IT systems at hospitals.
The operation took place under the name "Operation Bot Roast", which is an on-going operation to hunt down botnets and their owners.
Among the three men arrested is Robert Soloway from Seattle, a long time spam king. Another man, Downey, controlled his botnet consisting of Agobot infected machines from an IRC server and performed DDoS attacks.
The FBI will try and warn the 1 million owners of infected machines and point them to safe computing practices.
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Ryan
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 5:45 pm?? ?Post subject:
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Awesome news.
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:08 am?? ?Post subject:
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Among the three men arrested is Robert Soloway from Seattle, a long time spam king. Another man, Downey, controlled his botnet consisting of Agobot infected machines from an IRC server and performed DDoS attacks. |
A important piece of information that was not included here was the fact that Michael Downey AKA Nessun, owns Rizon, which is like the 4th or 5th largest IRC network. Also, set your facts right. He has not been arrested yet, hes only been charged - I don't think he has even been arraigned yet.
You can view the FBI press release on this here -> http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel07/botnet061307.htm
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Asmo
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:19 am?? ?Post subject:
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| paulmer wrote: |
| A important piece of information that was not included here was the fact that Michael Downey AKA Nessun, owns Rizon, which is like the 4th or 5th largest IRC network. |
Oh thats new for me, I havent found that info in my sources, thanks for the additional info :)
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paulmer
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:25 pm?? ?Post subject:
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Go lookup the court docs and it says it right there 
I believe wired had a article on the bust and they are hosting some of them.
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:07 am?? ?Post subject:
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| paulmer wrote: |
Go lookup the court docs and it says it right there
I believe wired had a article on the bust and they are hosting some of them. |
Yes Michael Downey AKA Nessun has been changed and he pleaded guilty he is looking at going away
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007706210400
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:09 am?? ?Post subject:
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I'll add another story today reflecting this. Thanks again for pointing me to this, initially I didnt know :)
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