Security News > 2020 > November > $100M Botnet Scheme Lands Cybercriminal 8 Years in Jail

"For over a decade, Brovko participated in a scheme to gain access to Americans' personal and financial information, causing more than $100 million in intended loss," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, in a statement issued Monday.

In October, a new variant of the InterPlanetary Storm botnet was discovered, which comes with fresh detection-evasion tactics and now targets Mac and Android devices.

In August, researchers warned of a peer-to-peer botnet called FritzFrog that they say has been actively breaching SSH servers since January.

In June, new research emerged about a resurfaced hackers-for-hire group called DarkCrewFriends, which was targeting content management systems to build a botnet.

The botnet can be marshalled into service to carry out a variety of criminal activities, including distributed denial-of-service attacks, command execution, information exfiltration or sabotage of an infected system.

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