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Leni de Abreu Neto

Suspected botnet herder rounded into court

Submitted by Layer 8 on Fri, 08/22/08 - 9:30am.

A Federal grand jury as has charged a Brazilian with trying to damage and infect over 100,000 computers with a malicious botnet program that could have launched denial of service attacks, taken down networked systems or launched tons of spam.

According to the US Department of Justice, Leni de Abreu Neto, 35, of Taubate, Brazil, is charged with one count of conspiracy to cause damage to computers worldwide. If convicted, Neto faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and up to three years of supervised release.

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