The Washington Post has posted a long interview with a young “hacker” who runs a “botnet” or network of hijacked PCs.

He claims that his network, a small one, consists of 13,000 computers in 20 countries and earns him on average USD 6,800 a month from the advertising companies whose adware he installs.

He tells the Washington Post: “All those people in my botnet, right, if I don’t use them, they’re just gonna eventually get caught up in someone else’s net, so it might as well be mine.” Nice.

You can also read some interviews with the botnetter’s victims.

[Via Slashdot]Internet, botnet, bots, adware, hackers, security

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