Botmaster Busted

FBI agents arrested last Nov. 3 an alleged botmaster. Jeanson Ancheta, a Filipino-American, is charged with two counts of conspiracy and various forms of computer intrusion and money laundering.

Ancheta is suspected of using a modified version of the “rxbot” Trojan Horse to take control of thousands of vulnerable computers. Pop-up generating malware are then covertly installed in the infected system, a scheme that eventually generated $60,000 in ill-gotten profits.

Ancheta is now held without bond, with his trial scheduled for Dec. 27. If convicted of all 17 charges, he faces up to 50 years of prison.

Read these pages for more details.


Computer Virus Broker Arrested For Selling Armies Of Infected Computers To Hackers And Spammers (USDoJ)

Alleged Virus Spreader Held Without Bond (Yahoo! News)

Alleged Pop-Up Hacker Busted (Wired)

Fil-Am ‘botmaster’ denies hijacking thousands of computers (Inq7.net)