Texas man set to admit building botnet-for-hire
Robert McMillan reports:
A Mesquite, Texas, man is set to plead guilty to training his 22,000-PC botnet on a local ISP — just to show off its firepower to a potential customer.
David Anthony Edwards will plead guilty to charges that he and another man, Thomas James Frederick Smith, built a custom botnet, called Nettick, which they then tried to sell to cybercriminals at the rate of $0.15 per infected computer, according to court documents.
On August 14, 2006, Smith and Edwards allegedly used part of Nettick to attack a computer hosted by The Planet.
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