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Teen Pleads Guilty in Botnet Adware Scheme

Used IRCBots to profit off of online advertising contracts

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 15, 2008 1:28 PM CST

(Newser) – A teenager referred to by the FBI as BDH and known online as “Sobe” pleaded guilty to two counts of juvenile fraud conspiracy for a scheme that used botnets to install adware on hundreds of thousands of American computers, including some military systems. He...   Read full story »

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