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Man gets two years in prison for selling 200,000 DDoS hits

Over 2,000 customers with malice on their minds A 33-year-old Illinois man has been sentenced to two years in prison for running websites that paying customers used to launch more than 200,000 distributed denial-of-services (DDoS) attacks.…

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Man gets two years in prison for selling 200,000 DDoS hits

Russian jailed for eight years in the US for writing code that sifted botnet logs for web banking creds for fraudsters

Harvested usernames, passwords used to drain victims’ coffers A Russian programmer has been sentenced to eight years behind bars in America for his part in a massive cybercriminal network that hacked into and drained victims’ bank accounts.…

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Russian jailed for eight years in the US for writing code that sifted botnet logs for web banking creds for fraudsters