Arizona man sentenced for selling access to botnets

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  cyber_security A man who was reportedly part of one of the first “DDOS-for-hire” electronic attack hit squads will serve two-and-a-half years in prison for selling access to malware-infected computers. Joshua Schichtel, 30, of Phoenix, was sentenced on Sept. 6 to 30 months in prison for selling command-and-control access to, and […]

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