California Man Pleads Guilty to Felony Hacking

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

An AP newswire article by Dan Goodin, via Yahoo! News,
reports that:

[snip]

A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday to surreptitiously seizing control of hundreds of thousands of 
Internet-connected computers and renting the zombie network to people who mounted attacks on Web sites, served up 
pop-up ads and sent out spam.

Jeanson James Ancheta, of Downey, Calif., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to four felony charges 
for crimes, including infecting machines at two U.S. military sites, that earned him more than $61,000, Assistant U.S. 
Attorney James Aquilina said.

Under a plea agreement, which still must be approved by a judge, Ancheta will receive from 4 years to 6 years in 
prison, forfeit a 1993 BMW and more than $58,000 in profit and pay $19,000 in restitution to the federal government to 
compensate for infecting the military computers, according to documents filed in the case.

He is scheduled to be sentenced May 1.

[snip]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060123/ap_on_hi_te/botnet_hacker

- ferg


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