Russian-Armenian botnet master made $140,000 a month

It'll be very interesting to see if this kind of problem will be as prevalent in the near future now that the generation of kids that grew up with computers is getting out of college. Though, given from what I saw working for the campus IT, the answer is probably yes since most people can't be bothered to know what their computer is doing so long as they can get to their email and facebook.
 
Well, at least now we know the motivation behind his hacking. I've always wondered why people needlessly create viruses, but at least this case kind of makes sense (but is still wrong).
 
What usually happens is these kind of guys get locked up then when they get out they work for some government in network security and make loads of money still.. lol.
 
The economies of scale involved in this business are staggering. Minor inconvenience for me, millions of dollars for him.
 
banks are selling loans to other banks right? he's pretty smart thinking along the same way, not smart to get caught though
 
Guest said:
Dear Readers and message repliers.

I also heard besides this genius mind, that in armenia, I.T experts were the people who invented the Bluetooth that is used on phones and p.c's.
But what is upsetting is that this person may have done the wrong thing to make money, but when you have jackals like american corporations who have basically bribed armenian I.T experts into pocket change rewards for innovation i dont think they would have any other choice, these armenians are extremely intellingent and the american I.T corporations in armenia have a base in that country with armenian IT people working to invent things. all they get is a measly 5k for it, i doubt the bluetooth invention was worth 5k to the genius who invented it while the americans got billions or millions in profit. Isnt this slave labour and bribery ? Yes it is.
thanks for reading, now you are all aware !
Regards
Steven Z.

Are you Armenian? Just kidding :)
 
It's surprising that in our days botnets of that size still exist and are profitable. People still don't know what to do and what not to do on the internet?
 
Is there any tutorials on how to start or create a botnet???
Sorry the imagination of having 140k a month making me out of my mind. Damn
 
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