FBI arrests Zombie pusher
The FBI has arrested a 20-year-old man from Los Angeles for profiting from adverts pushed to compromised computers on a zombie network. Jeanson James Ancheta attacked computers to gain remote access in order to create a zombie network. He was then paid for installing adware on the network and sending spam through it.
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