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Mariposa botnet 'mastermind' jailed in Slovenia

• jds375 13y ago
  To be honest, it seems like he didn't get off too bad. I'm sure he made much more than was confiscated from him. The jail time isn't fun, but other 'hackers' have gotten much worse.
• bananacurve 13y ago
  "The operator subsequently managed to take back control of the infected computers and then used them to attack Defence Intelligence, a Canadian security firm helping the FBI. However, in doing so Netkairo appeared to have revealed his identity by accidentally connecting to the botnet directly from his home computer rather than the VPN." You only have to slip up once.
• rwmj 13y ago
  Good. This is the kind of thing that law enforcement ought to be dealing with on the internet. Fraud, not spying and censorship.
• PublicEnemy111 13y ago
  I used to belong to a number of hacking(carding) forums a while back. I never participated in the activities, but did take an interest in their source codes, tools, etc. Its interesting to watch people such as Iserdo show up in new articles like this as they were well respected members on the forums and were looked up to. I remember Iserdo from one particular forum and its strange to think about the "off-topic" posts from Iserdo joking around. I can't help but feel I almost knew him